Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.
Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
I don't know the right way to retire.
Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.
[repeated line] Gus Grissom: Fuckin' A, bubba.
A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
If you do right, everything will come out right.
Give it a kick at the right place and it'll work.
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache.
My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!
It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.
Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.
The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?
Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.