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I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

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Bill WattersonHomicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs y...

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Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and onl...

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reality has too many heads

How many rivers do we have to cross,Before we can talk to the boss?

In high seas or in low seas,I'm gonna be your friend...I'm gonna be your friend.In high tide or in l...

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In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend!

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap ...

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All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a who...

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You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come...

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There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are...

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The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definitely lived...

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They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him...

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Then one day I found my head when I wasn't even trying.

And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole lif...

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Daniel HandlerWhy We Broke Up

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that ...

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It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band...

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I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled wit...

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In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're...

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Now I'm a warriorNow i've got thicker skinI'm a warrior I'm stronger than i've ever beenAnd my amorI...

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Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and...

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Demi LovatoStaying Strong: 365 Days a Year

The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sop...

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God has prepared for Himself one great song of praise throughout eternity, and those who enter the c...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

And I'm not saying it's a bad song, you know, or anything like that. All I'm saying is that if you g...

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I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever...

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The worst things in life come free to us

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has sl...

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Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I ...

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There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for...

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You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumpi...

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If you drive a car, I'll tax the street;if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, ...

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I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it ...

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George MacDonaldAt the Back of the North Wind

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as...

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The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and...

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Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:It listens, listens. Taller trees beyondListen. The moon a...

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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I...

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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts...

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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a strick...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a strick...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of...

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Under the Mountain dark and tallThe King has come unto his hall!His foe is dead,the Worm of Dread,An...

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Far over the misty mountains coldTo dungeons deep and caverns oldWe must away ere break of dayTo see...

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Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, pa...

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To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying,The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying...

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Above all shadows rides the Sunand Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,nor bid the S...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Return of the King

When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the drea...

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But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a hous...

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I haven't changed, but I know I ain't the same.

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind ...

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No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

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James ConnollySongs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Gene...

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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you...

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Sometimes it may seem dark, but the absence of the light is a necessary part.

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Jason MrazLove Is a Four Letter Word

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against ou...

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Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

Almighty Freedom! give my venturous songThe force, the charm that to thy voice belong;Tis thine to s...

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How dare you say it's nothing to me?Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing thei...

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Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older tha...

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I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray

He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing i...

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You held me down, but I got upHey!Alrighty brushing off the dust You hear my voice You hear that sou...

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I got the Eye of the Tiger The FireDancing through the fire Cause I am a Champion!And your gonna hea...

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Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect ro...

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Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothin...

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I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy.I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.

I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of t...

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The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due...

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Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself...

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Ravaged all,Bogo tabalTimore toronTotoo now gone...

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply;Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by.Be strong my we...

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If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs, The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer.While the ...

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It's a lost and lonely kind of feeling,To wake up wearing a disguise.I lie in bed staring at the cei...

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Lords of melody and song,Lords of roses burning bright,Blue will right the ancient wrong,Though the ...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet