Top 965 Performed Quotes & Sayings

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

I under-performed, I realize that.

I'm obsessed with 'Wicked', and I'd love to play Nala in 'The Lion King'. Some of the songs from 'The Lion King' are performed in my native tongue, so when the cast performed an extract from the show in 'Strictly' in the language I grew up with, it made me cry.

It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.

If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

Music does not excite until it is performed.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

He was a man, he always performed his promises.

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

It is easy to understand when Everton performed better it was when they had stability.

Rob Goldstone is a talent manager for Emin Agalarov, who's an Azerbaijani Russian singer who performed at Miss Universe and later performed at the WGC championship golf course tournament that we held at Doral.

No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature.

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

I just keep it real, and I have written songs from my heart and performed them how they should be performed.

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.

If we now plainly perceive that the passage of the blood from the arteries into the veins of the tadpole is not performed in any other than those vessels, which are so minute as only to admit the passage of a single globule at a time, we may conclude that the same is performed in like manner in our own bodies and in those of other animals.

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but also on your eyes so as to change your outlook. But wait a minute. No, I do not propose to operate at all. I myself cannot do anything of the sort. I am just mildly suggesting that you are perhaps dead, and perhaps blind, leaving you to think the matter over for yourself. If an operation is to be performed it must be performed by God Himself.

The Apollo is where all the greats performed.

I've always believed that I performed better under pressure.

I've always performed magic as a kid.

When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.

The exorcisms I performed and conducted mainly focus on the Catholic ways.

The greater part performed achieves the less.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

I wish I could have performed with Jeff Buckley, but I missed my chance.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

The EPA has performed a very important role for us all.

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.

One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.'

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

We've performed in South America and in Japan.

I had a full exorcism performed on me from an archbishop.

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.

Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.