Vesta Williams Quotes

#1. I was afraid of looking into my heart ... afraid of thinking seriously about anything ... I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved ...

Ivan Turgenev

#2. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

William Wordsworth

#3. A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

Vesta Williams

#4. Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

Vesta Williams

#5. When food arrives, eat; enjoy what you have in every moment.

Jude Watson

#6. I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.

Vesta Williams

#7. When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.

Vesta Williams

#8. Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.

Ayn Rand

#9. When I was 5 years old, hanging out with my friends who were all older than me, like 8 or 9, I was joking around like, 'Yeah, when I'm 20 that's a perfect age to go pro.' That's what I had in my head. Then I turn pro at 13. It's all been a mystery and its all been awesome.

Ryan Sheckler

#10. Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

Grantland Rice

#11. I'm responding to the will of the people.

David Mamet

#12. According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start.

Vesta Williams

#13. Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. Stop blubbering, Bella. You'll ruin your dress. It's just me."
"Just? Oh Jake! Everything is perfect now."
He snorted. "Yeah- the party can start. The best man finally made it."
"Now everyone I love is here.

Stephenie Meyer

#15. At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.

Ann Voskamp

#16. He alone had the courage to do what was right.

Jennifer L. Holm

#17. I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.

Chris Kyle

#18. I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.

Vesta Williams

#19. Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon