A Quote by Calvin Miller

The lips know only shallow tunes

Calvin Miller

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Know Lips Only Shallow Tunes

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Calvin Miller
Scottish - Author
August 28, 1936 - August 19, 2012

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

Tamora Pierce

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

Bryan Clay

Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.

Jane Rogers

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

Mose Allison

Only the shallow know themselves.

Oscar Wilde

I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.

Terry Bozzio

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

Ulysses S. Grant

I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

Ulysses S. Grant

Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

Kari Matchett

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.

Pablo Neruda

You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

Suzanne Somers

When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.

Ryan Adams

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

Keith Jarrett

Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.

Dickey Betts

I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

Tom Lehrer

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