Thelma Houston Quotes

#1. I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

Thelma Houston

#2. I will never play for the Miami Heat.

Rajon Rondo

#3. When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their first studio in California. At the studio, you'd run into Stevie Wonder, you'd run into Marvin Gaye ... it was very special.

Thelma Houston

#4. If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.

George Herbert

#5. Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

Aaron Eckhart

#6. Words are beads on the strings of sentences. So make a beautiful necklace!

Aneta Cruz

#7. Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we've chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.

Gabriel Zaid

#8. Beer might help with that," Quentin said. He felt punchy. "This could be the next clue. If it's a talking beer, I mean a talking bear, we could, you know, talk to it.

Lev Grossman

#9. I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.

Thelma Houston

#10. (The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.

Thomas Cahill

#11. It's great, the number of people that I'm reaching through the Internet - I've done some wonderful interviews - but I miss touching the bodies. I miss shaking hands, looking into people's faces and saying, 'Hello, how are you doing? Thank you for playing my music.'

Thelma Houston

#12. When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved and songs that I wished I had recorded. Peter suggested that we pick some songs and see how they work with you and try to come up with arrangements and ideas about how you might want to do them.

Thelma Houston

#13. The comedy of the wicked,
Is the tragedy of the saint;
But the saint's comedy,
Is the wicked's remedy.

Stephan Attia

#14. In comfort and abundance the Friend raised me. With vein and skin He tailored this ragged body. It's just a robe worn by a Sufi, the heart. The whole universe is a khaneqah1 and He is my Shaikh.

Jalaluddin Rumi