Percy Sledge Quotes

Every time I went into the studio, I always sung with my heart. If it came out as strong, as good, as powerful as that to my fans, then I was satisfied. I never slacked. I always did all the songs the same way as the first.

Percy Sledge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 25, 1941 - April 14, 2015

Topics

GoodHeartTimeStrongPowerfulWay

I've raised my boys the old-fashioned way, with spankings, sending them upstairs if they misbehave at parties, the works. I believe discipline is the proof of love.

Jerry Lewis

LoveDisciplineBelieveWayProof

At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

Jeremy Irons

AgeSchoolDownBottomGoingOff

When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most Literary Boy.' I can assure you I was not voted 'Mostly Likely to Succeed.' I was voted 'Most Musical Boy.' And the music led to the poetry.

Robert Pinsky

MusicPoetrySucceedYouI CanPlay

I always have believed in the value of the diversity and resilience and just, really, the different skill sets that our community has. But we've never been able to find the right platform and find the right environment for us as a community - for us as a professional community.

Angelica Ross

CommunityDiversityValueResilience

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.

Amber Benson

BookSelfishDoingCreatePerson

I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?

Roberto Cavalli

PeopleYouMeetAskSignLike

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

Lou Barletta

GovernmentToughImmigrationAmerica

Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

FriendshipMenMeDeepPolitical

Singing was never my thing.

Deborah Joy Winans

SingingNeverThing

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

Chaz Bono

PeopleBrainGenderBodyComplicated

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Ansel Adams

DisappointmentPhotographyLandscape

Monsters aren't as scary if you start shining lights on them.

Wyatt Cenac

StartYouLightsScaryMonsters

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