Peabo Bryson Quotes

If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

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• The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • Nice

• People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • World
  • Way

• Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • My Life

• Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Find

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Impossible

• The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Good
  • Today
  • Pretty

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • You
  • Road
  • First

• Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Done
  • Boundaries

• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • World
  • Free
  • Wish

• You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Seek
  • Satisfy
  • Objective

• I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • World
  • America

• Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Right

• Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Things
  • Force

• The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Time
  • History
  • Best

• Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa,Ah, only one day away from your arms;I hate to do this to you but I love somebody new, what can I do?And I can never, never, never … go home again.

  

  Hal David
  • Home
  • Hate

• There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Idea
  • Original

• {The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Talent
  • Accomplished

• I had a dog for 20 years and her name was 'Penny,' so I have a penny necklace.

  

  Kidada Jones
  • Dog

• ...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Simple
  • Garden
  • Pen

• If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

  

  Peabo Bryson