Best breaths & song Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Source: Starship Troopers

“Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.”

Should Art Self Form Song Freedom Creative Expression Breaths Baths Self Expression Refreshing Impulsive Sketching

Author:Mervyn Levy

“Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.”

Heart Pain Song Heaven Water Darkness Laughing Hair Cold Spring Rain Breaths Lips Rings Shoulders Dawn Thick Sigh Toasts Enchanted Dank Dispelling

Book:Cloudrifts at Twilight

Source: Cloudrifts at Twilight

“Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook; The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers; The song of birds amid the bowers; The crystal of the azure seas; The music of the southern breeze; And, over all, the blessed sun, Telling of halcyon days begun.”

May Eye Song Sun Sea Sky Mines Flower Summer Bird Breaths Blessed Southern Breeze Simplest Crystals Flocks Brooks Azure Greening Minnows Halcyon Days

Book:The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

Source: The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

“How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon! The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon; Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' whispering trees; And birds of morning trim their bustling wings, And listen fondly--while the Blackbird sings.”

Song Morning Rich Tree Sweet Summer Bird Harmony Breaths Wings Ancient Streams Afternoon Breeze Sunny Whispering Boon Blackbirds

Book:Days and Hours

Source: Days and Hours

“I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.”

World Song Air Breaths Fresh Air Haitian

Author:Michel Martelly

“Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent.”

Song Realizing Okay Breaths Permanent Deep Breath Your Favorite Favorite Song Take A Deep Breath

Author:Camila Cabello

“Every breath you take and every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take I'll be watchin' you Every single day and every word you say Every game you play, every night you stay I'll be watchin' you”

Play Moving Night Song Games Steps Break Breaths Every Night Every Step Popular Song Words You Say Every Step You Take

Author:Sting

“In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst into song and dance, when every breath they take is heightened-and makes an entire picture of such pinnacles.”

Moments Song Actors Breaths Musical Seconds Thrilling Pinnacle Rouge Song And Dance

Author:Elvis Mitchell

“At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.”

Whole Together Song Risk Breaths Ties Something New Auditions Assignments

Author:Pete Seeger

“I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.”

Kind Whole Moments Facts Feelings Able Lasts Song Healthy Miracle Breaths Albums Repeats That Moment Be Kind Decadence

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.”

Thinking Home Kids School Young Song Three Records Dad High School Breaths Yeah My Dad Coming Home Streisand

Author:Meryl Streep

“I couldn't make every song about Texas because it wouldn't be new; it wouldn't be a breath of fresh air.”

Song Air Breaths Texas Fresh Air

Author:Chamillionaire

“I was just fooling around with the piano and Todd [Phillips] was like, 'Hey there's a great spot in the movie [The Hangover] where we need a little bit of a breath in the narrative. You should write a song and stick it in there.' And I was like, 'Well, what should the song be about?' And he said, 'The tiger.' 'Oh, okay.' So I went off and I wrote this song. I came back and Todd and I tinkered with it a little more and then we shot it right then. It all happened in a day.”

Needs Should Writing Wells Littles Said Song Bits Happened Little Bit Shots Okay Breaths Sticks Spots Hey Narrative Piano Tigers Hangover Fooling Around

Author:Ed Helms

“I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow! There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep To the subaqueous stillness of the sea, And floats forever in a moon-green pool, Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.”

Source: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

“Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!”

Ifs Heart Earth Mother Song Drink Eternal Breaths Streams

Author:Juliet Marillier

“Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.”

Ifs Way Mean Stories Guy Song Creating Singing Illusion Okay Breaths My Way Providing Composing Deep Breath Composure Illusion Of Control

Book:Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.”

Earth Song Wind Breaths Dancing Wave Flames

Book:Seer of Sevenwaters

Source: Seer of Sevenwaters

“She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest and breathed its pungent dog breath in her face. On those days she called in sick to the IT shop where, most days, she untangled tangled networks for a song. On those days she pulled down the shades and ran dark for twelve or twenty-four or seventy-two hours, however long it took for the black dog to go on home to its dark master.”

Long Stills Two Home Faces Song Black Hours Dark Four Dog Masters Goes On Sick Weight Twenties Breaths Ran Crush Shops Chests Shade Twelve Seventies Bad Day Tangled

Author:Lev Grossman

“Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi teacher told us to breath the air, transforming it into energy, motion. Dancing is the body's song, and Bess sang.”

Way Body Song Energy Teacher Air Arms Breaths Dancing Lips Legs Transforming Arms And Legs Torso Tai Chi

Book:Fatigue Artist

Source: Fatigue Artist

“I wonder what kinds of songs Preston's father sang to him." Zach raised his eyebrows. "I wonder if he's in a cell humming them to himself right now." I should have said something-done something. He was in a dark place, there in the moonlight. But before I could say a word, Zach took a deep breath and looked up at the fortress. "I wonder if I should join him.”

Ifs Should Kind Said Done Song Father Dark Wonder Right Now Should Have Breaths Raised Cells Eyebrows Moonlight Deep Breath Dark Places Fortresses Humming

Author:Ally Carter

“Upon my lips the breath of song, Within my heart a rhyme, Howe'er time trips or lags along, I keep abreast with time!”

Heart Time Song My Heart Breaths Lips Rhyme Lag

Book:Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic

Source: Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic

“Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.”

Thinking Men Song Culture Politics Natural Justice Accepting Rights Land Circumstances Diversity Labor Breaths Social Justice Fruit Deeds Rebel

Author:Roger Casement

“Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with their melodies, Till noon burns with its blistering breath Around, and day lies still as death.”

Stills Lying Song Grows Summer Breaths Busy Size Tongue Tiny Loud Melody Smallest Insects Breeze July Noon Tease

Author:John Clare

“Walk through this with me. Through this church birthed of blood and muscle where every move our arms take, every breath we swallow is worship. Bend with me. There are bones in our throats. If we choke it is only on songs.”

Ifs Moving Song Church Walks Blood Arms Worship Breaths Bones Muscles Throat Choke

Author:Anis Mojgani

“Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.”

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