Best singing & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the wild language we are learning by heart under the sea. When a woman speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, staying tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul. To live this way is a cycle in itself, one meant to go on, go on, go on.”

Way Heart Soul Use Feelings Speak Language Chance Fire Sea Goes On Holy Singing Breaths Intention Streams Staying Cycles

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.”

Humans Reason Language Sound Community Love Is Poet Self Love Singing Bird And Love

Author:Sharon Olds

“One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.”

Source: Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

“Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.”

Joy Desire Language Praying Holy Singing

Book:Wesley's Notes on the Bible - The Old Testament: Genesis - Ruth

Source: Wesley's Notes on the Bible - The Old Testament: Genesis - Ruth

“I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.”

Knows Country Language Emotion Singing Singers

Author:PJ Harvey

“Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.”

Ifs Facts Spirit Certain Girl Opportunity Speak Language Talent Moon Singing Dues Tunes Peculiar Quarters Discovering Creepy Once Upon A Time Sloth Flutes Gnome Jade Fruitcake

Author:Ursula Vernon

“What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.”

Thinking Kind Long Language Singing Entertainment

Author:Terence McKenna

“My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing.”

People Age School Young Artist Language Parent Community Acting Growing Up Growing Singing Dancing Young Age Upbringing Wales Oratory Welsh Singing And Acting Schools And Community

Author:Iwan Rheon

“Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak.”

Speak Language Singing Forgotten I Realized

Author:Rene Marie

“Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or direct ways. It sets your mind free because you don't have a history with the language. You have to use the most direct way of communication, which is saying what you want to say in the way you can.”

Mind Language Communication Singing Direct Brave Blunt

Author:Anna Ternheim

“Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.”

People Ifs Knows World Stills Language Communication Music Is Singing Good Communication

Author:Lou Rawls

“In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.”

Ends Moments Fall Language Water Wind Shapes Singing Bird Understood Clouds That Moment Sunlight Fountain Beginnings And Ends Ged

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.”

Wells Fighting Language Modern Style Masters Singing Europe Dancing Drawing Accomplished Tactics Thorough Kyoto Weaponry Thorough Knowledge Modern Languages

Book:Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem

“the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .”

Form Language Memories Singing Again And Again Scent Breeze Intermittent

Book:Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

“Do you miss Wales?” Tessa inquired. Will shrugged lightly. “What’s to miss? Sheep and singing,” he said. “And the ridiculous language. Fe hoffwn i fod mor feddw, fyddai ddim yn cofio fy enw.” “What does that mean?” “It means ‘I wish to get so drunk I no longer remember my own name,’ Quite useful.”

Mean Doe Said Remember Names Language Wish My Own Missing Singing Ridiculous Drunk Sheep Wales

Author:Cassandra Clare

“My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.”

Source: Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey

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