Quotes About Hymn Singing

#1. No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

Aldous Huxley

#2. We used to sing the hymn "Take Time to Be Holy." But perhaps we should be singing, "Take time to be human." Or finally, "Take time." Sabbath is taking time ... time to be holy ... time to be human.

Walter Brueggemann

#3. Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

MC Hammer

#4. In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams ... all arrive unbidden when I'm getting cash at the ATM, walking my son to camp, singing a hymn at a wedding.

Julia Glass

#5. I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

Bill Wyman

#6. The Lord probably didn't appreciate her feigning nearsightedness in order to repeatedly lean into her husband when she should've been concentrating on the meaning behind the hymn she was singing.

Karen Witemeyer

#7. I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

Matt Groening

#8. That meant that he'd drunk too much too early, and had popped an Alcoterm to burn it off.

Joe Haldeman

#9. He was singing a hillbilly song that sounded half like a love song and half like a hymn.

Flannery O'Connor

#10. What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?

Tad Williams

#11. On the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic

Laura Amy Schlitz

#12. For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.

Floyd Patterson

#13. I've a goodly share of faults. I rush in, where I should tread carefully. I speak, where I should listen. But when I hear them sing, I don't just hear a hymn. They're singing to God because they haven't found anyone else who will listen.

Courtney Milan

#14. A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

Jamey Johnson

#15. The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.

Arshile Gorky

#16. Your name may be 'writ in water', but for now, you have the great advantage of being a wave that can think.

D.J. MacLennan

#17. Your heart is a conduit through which the spirit speaks to the mind.

Steven Redhead

#18. The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.

Greg Mortenson

#19. I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.

Anna Kavan

#20. If you've been trained to listen to mistakes your whole life, you forget to listen to opportunities.

Lucia Micarelli

#21. Listen carnales listen to the hymn of it, the lie of it, the prayer of it, the voices singing our names: listen it's our story, it's our song,

Luis Alberto Urrea

#22. Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea and through pumping the water into canals, the country of the ingenious, resourceful, and doughty Dutch has literally been born of the sea.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#23. Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie - those are all wonderful things that come to you when running. But for me, the real pull of running - the proverbial icing on the cake - has always been racing.

Bill Rodgers

#24. You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.

Rocky Colavito