Top 100 Quotes About Delta
#2. The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
Jimmy Page
#3. The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.
Charles Kuralt
#5. It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.
Delta Burke
#6. I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid.
Delta Burke
#7. For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.
Delta Burke
#8. A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm.
Anais Nin
#9. I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.
Margaret Smith
#10. I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids. And then I put on more after that, and I've gone up and down since then.
Delta Burke
#11. The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.
Lewis Nordan
#12. I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.
Jeff Foxworthy
#13. Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.
Delta Goodrem
#14. We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.
John Hull
#15. At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.
Delta Goodrem
#16. Ask me why I never joined a sorority. I went to college in Georgia. Still... never tempted. Why?" *lady in leather making speech with man tided to alter* "That's why. Delta Delta Delta. Kiwanis. Girl Scouts. They all lead here-- to the basement of the Hellfire Club.
Chelsea Cain
#17. I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.
Delta Goodrem
#18. But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.
Delta Burke
#19. Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.
Delta Burke
#20. The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You're flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.
Tucker Elliot
#21. And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.
Delta Burke
#22. I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.
Delta Burke
#23. I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
Charles Evers
#24. Delta is full of guys who can stay awake for a week and walk a hundred miles and shoot the balls off a tsetse fly, but it's relatively empty of guys who can do all that and then tell you the difference between a Shiite and a trip to the latrine.
Lee Child
#25. If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'
Delta Burke
#26. The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.
Tim Cahill
#27. I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.
Delta Goodrem
#29. When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.
James Bay
#30. The blues and jazz will live forever ... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson
#31. Enlightenment is at the source of everything. From it, flows our Intuition and our creative energy. It is the delta of the human spirit ~ what we innately seek to return to, as we find ourselves lost in this world.
Kim Chestney
#32. Most people's journeys haven't been as disjointed as mine.
Delta Goodrem
#33. I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
Charley Pride
#34. I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.
Delta Goodrem
#35. And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.
Anais Nin
#36. I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.
Delta Burke
#37. Remembering her own narrow single bed at home, she added without thinking, "Someone could get lost in that bed."
Valois laughed, surprising Delta and she looked curiously at him. His eyes twinkling wickedly, the Frenchman said, "Perhaps some company would relieve you of that fear.
Brooke Templar
#38. If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.
Jean Toomer
#41. The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military
Nnimmo Bassey
#42. A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.
Delta Burke
#43. Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.
Delta Goodrem
#45. I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.
Delta Goodrem
#46. I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.
Bo Gritz
#47. It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.
Tim Cahill
#49. And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.
Delta Burke
#50. I'm in Delta Delta Delta, otherwise known as Tri-Delta. I've developed some great friendships, and it's enabled me to have a little bit more of a normal college experience.
Meryl Davis
#51. I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'
Delta Goodrem
#52. That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
Muddy Waters
#53. The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
Alexander McCall Smith
#54. Delta Airlines recently proposed giving frequent flyers a controversial perk: the option of paying $5 extra to speak to a customer service agent in the United States, rather than be routed to a call center in India. Public disapproval led Delta to abandon the idea.
Michael J. Sandel
#55. I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.
Mose Allison
#57. The Niger delta as a matter of urgency needs to re-think its development strategy by developing her non-oil sectors. There is no easy way out of this, and we will all see that at the end it is the only way out.
Emi Iyalla
#58. It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#59. I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.
Delta Burke
#60. I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.
Delta Burke
#61. Leo unfurled the little strip of paper. It read: THAT'S YOUR REQUEST? SERIOUSLY? (OVER) On the back, the paper said: YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS ARE: TWELVE, JUPITER, ORION, DELTA, THREE, THETA, OMEGA. (WREAK VENGEANCE UPON GAEA, LEO VALDEZ.)
Rick Riordan
#62. Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station - seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them.
Aldous Huxley
#63. If you think you can grasp me, think again:
my story flows in more than one direction
a delta springing from the riverbed
with its five fingers spread
Adrienne Rich
#64. Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.
Jimmy Fallon
#65. When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.
Delta Goodrem
#66. Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.
Sylvia Browne
#67. What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.
Delta Goodrem
#68. Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.
John Lewis
#69. I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.
Delta Goodrem
#70. In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do.
Delta Burke
#72. I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs.
Delta Burke
#73. None of this is to deny that the Niger Delta has made mistakes. It has, and a good number at that. But then, mistakes are made to make wiser and therefore help in better decision making.
Emi Iyalla
#74. I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice.
Delta Goodrem
#75. OUTLANDER A Delta Book PUBLISHING HISTORY Delacorte Press hardcover edition published 1991 Delta trade paperback edition/July 2001 Published by Bantam Dell A Division of Random House, Inc.
Diana Gabaldon
#76. The Egyptians of 4000 B.C. believed that the goddess Isis, wife of Osiris, taught them how to grow olives. The Greeks have a similar legend. But the Hebrew word for olive, zait, is probably older than the Greek word, elaia, and is thought to refer to Said in the Nile Delta.
Mark Kurlansky
#77. Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.
Delta Goodrem
#78. For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.
Delta Burke
#79. I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls.
Delta Burke
#80. I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.
Delta Goodrem
#81. If you're able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you're able to tackle anything around the world because you're able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I'm concerned.
Nneka
#82. My kitty wishes to engulf you within her darkened delta of destruction.
Matt Fraction
#83. And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.
Delta Burke
#84. If you're interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe doing little theatre, you're better off and you'll be a happier person. This is too gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.
Delta Burke
#85. For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.
Jill Scott
#86. I believe the impossible is possible to overcome I believe in miracles Born from love in everyone
Delta Goodrem
#88. Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
Edwidge Danticat
#89. The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
Delta Goodrem
#90. The subconscious mind comes into play in other less common brainwaves such as alpha, gamma, theta and delta. These brainwaves have also been shown to be activated when test subjects are laughing, daydreaming, meditating, singing, dancing or spontaneously moving about.
James Morcan
#92. My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Mark Knopfler
#93. I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.
Delta Goodrem
#96. JEMAINE
Lisa?
BRET
Yes, she's in Delta Force. She's been deployed to Fallujah.
JEMAINE
But she works in the croissant shop.
BRET
Yeah, she's got two jobs. She's a pastry chef and a sniper.
Flight Of The Conchords
#97. I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.
Delta Burke
#98. I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.
Mike DeGruy
#99. Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.
Aaron Levie
#100. Camp-keeping in the Delta was not all beer and skittles.
Aldo Leopold
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