Quotes of: Recital Keyword

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

Bryn Terfel

The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and ...

David Novak

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Frank Luntz

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Natalie Merchant

He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, ...

Said Nursi

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

Irrfan Khan

People recite lines to me all the time, anywhere I get recognized.

Steven Bauer

The recitation of grievances was strange balm.

The Book of Madness and Cures

Jack Skellington: [singing] I'm a master of fright, / and a demon of light, / and I'll scare you right out of your pants. / To a guy in Kentucky / I'm Mister Unlucky / And I'm know thoughout England and France, / And since I am dead, / I can take off...

The Nightmare Before Christmas

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Kathleen Battle

Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

Zach Galifianakis

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

The Savage Detectives

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

Jesse Ventura

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

The English Patient

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Robert Anton Wilson

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

Barbara Jordan

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Steve Earle

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

Mandy Patinkin

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

Lascelles Abercrombie

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

Jamais Cascio