Jeffrey Osborne Quotes

#1. I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.

R. Kelly

#2. I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.

Fanny Kemble

#3. But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.

George Saunders

#4. I'm not trying to put any more pressure on me because it's the playoffs.

Monta Ellis

#5. Just smile for me and let the day begin.

Jeffrey Osborne

#6. I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood.

Jeffrey Osborne

#7. I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.

Jeffrey Osborne

#8. I know I shouldn't be doing this. I know I'm poking a wound, not healing it. I know there's no way to have a future with Rhiannon.
All I'm doing is extending the past by a day.

David Levithan

#9. The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#10. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

John Scalzi

#12. The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.

Jeffrey Osborne

#13. The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.

Jeffrey Osborne

#14. I didn't even get upset. I was just astounded. And when I brought it up with Tom - calmly, matter-of-factly - he was just as baffled as I was.

Paula Hawkins

#15. Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.

Jeffrey Osborne

#16. I got an email from the Crown Prince of Norway asking me to talk at a summit for young Norwegian entrepreneurs. I ran to my wife and was like, 'Hey! I got an email from the Prince of Norway!'

Nick Woodman

#17. The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

P. W. Botha

#18. This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.

Tracy Chapman