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Billy Eckstine Quotes

I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

Billy Eckstine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 8, 1914 - March 8, 1993

Topics

Song Story Think You Know Say

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

Joe Biden

Constitution You Intention Authority

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Jerome K. Jerome

Alone Together Man Universe Labor

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

John Glenn

Morning Think Body Way Out Up

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

Maxim Gorky

Beautiful Words Language Guilty Most

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

Robert Musil

Man Value Direction Possibilities Go

Every individual should have both the right to join a union and the right to not join a union should they so choose. It's about basic human freedom.

Michael Baumgartner

Freedom Choose Human Right Union

I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.

Amber Heard

Love Good Guns Own Shot I Love

Don't accept what's out there because that is all that's out there. Look for the new and unusual. Seek out what you genuinely want to read and don't settle.

Rob Thurman

You Look New Want Settle Accept

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

Mary Oliver

Work Me Walks Unconscious Some

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Jonathan Swift

Love Hate Man Animal Forth Peter

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

Donald Hall

Hate School Poetry Wilderness High

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.

Chuck Palahniuk

Father Bird Me Name Bones Used