Clyde Mcphatter Quotes

#1. The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Ahmet Ertegun

#2. People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.

Ahmet Ertegun

#3. Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

Jon Landau

#4. Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.

Joshua

#5. While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

#6. I have nothing but the best memories of growing up in New Jersey. Of course, I grew up in a nice town, a suburb. But Tenafly was right next to Englewood, which had a tremendous amount of racial tension in the '60s. So I was aware of the real world.

Lesley Gore

#7. If an earthworm in the ground won't starve to death, then neither will we, the working class." He

Mo Yan

#8. I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

Christopher Meloni

#9. Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

J.M. Barrie

#10. We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.

Arthur Murray

#11. IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT?

Akira Kurosawa

#12. The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#13. If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

George Sidney