Sin Quotes - Page 55

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.

If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.

Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.

I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients

America Singer, one day you will fall asleep in my arms every night. And you'll wake up to my kisses every morning.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.

Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.'

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!