Lead Belly Quotes

#1. When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Langhorne Slim

#2. People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

Arlo Guthrie

#3. We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. You must maintain a state of happiness, state of joy to let the positive thoughts emanate from your mind.. If you are in a state of joy, your thoughts emanate positive energy, and you can influence others without much efforts.

Girdhar Joshi

#5. Pause today and notice something you have worked hard on and recognize yourself for it. Acknowledge your effort.

Kristin Armstrong

#6. Compliments of the season to you, and may the acid rain fall on your joint and anointed heads.

Julian Barnes

#7. My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

Lisa See

#8. 'Badmaash Company' and 'Delhi Belly' was about friends, and I was part of the gang. And yes, they did have stars playing the lead! You do need a star to sell a film; and playing the second lead doesn't bother me.

Vir Das

#9. Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

#10. for the vernacular which he was adept at converting

Jennifer Kloester

#11. boy Make believe he had a toy? That's the way Babies play; Babies who are young and small Make believe they play at ball!

Various

#12. Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Frederick Buechner

#13. For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason,

Jack London

#14. Seeing the sky darken & the fields
turn brown & the lake lead-grey
as some enormous scrap of sheet metal
& wind grabs the world around the equator
I am most thankful then for knowing about
the little gold hairs on your belly

Al Purdy

#15. You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. Every third step I ran, my breath exploded out of me all in a rush. One step to suck in another cold lungful. One step to let it excape. One step of not breathing.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. "Faith is what's wrong with the world, Aidan. Or don't you follow the news?"
"That's not faith," he says. "That's the complete lack of it. If any one of those mass-genocidal idiots had faith, they wouldn't have the insane need to prove it to others."

Cyma Rizwaan Khan

#18. And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

Michel De Montaigne