Pastoral Resources

The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

It's a sin to be tired.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

When I was singing, everybody liked me.