Hampson Quotes

#1. Law is twofold
natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

Ambrose

#2. Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought and emotion.

Thomas Hampson

#3. It was a rather dark shade of gray, his declaration, but I didn't think I'd ever heard anything more romantic than Colin telling me he'd spend his money, break laws, do anything he had to, to give me what I wanted.

Amber Lin

#4. Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Ruben Blades

#5. Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

Tom Lehrer

#6. Interviewer: Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them?
Faulkner: Read it four times.

William Faulkner

#7. We don't present our voices to the audience, we resonate our souls.

Thomas Hampson

#8. Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Francis Collins

#9. Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

Sol LeWitt

#10. If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

Woody Allen

#11. To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

Will Self

#12. When I'm at home, I don't discuss business. I don't talk business. I don't answer the phone. It's just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That's my world.

DMX

#13. It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, Wow, I'm really cooking.

Tony Bennett

#14. Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have ... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

Drake Bell