I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fam...
OTIS BLACKWELL I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There...
OTIS BLACKWELL I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen P...
OTIS BLACKWELL When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn&...
OTIS BLACKWELL There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I g...
OTIS BLACKWELL When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then...
OTIS BLACKWELL I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwrite...
OTIS BLACKWELL I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invit...
OTIS BLACKWELL I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited m...
OTIS BLACKWELL For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the ...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them...
LAWANA BLACKWELL Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
LAWANA BLACKWELL For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
LAWANA BLACKWELL Age is no guarantee of maturity.
LAWANA BLACKWELL If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
LAWANA BLACKWELL I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes f...
LAWANA BLACKWELL If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as we...
LAWANA BLACKWELL Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
LAWANA BLACKWELL Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputatio...
LAWANA BLACKWELL It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the w...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and p...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 elect...
KENNETH BLACKWELL The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have ...
KENNETH BLACKWELL The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, an...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation ...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL Well at the time it seemed like a good idea this was a time when the interest rate was a lot more ap...
BRIAN BLACKWELL It's definitely disappointing, but I know the University is headed in a good direction next year. Th...
BRIAN BLACKWELL I imagine I have been portrayed as a complete scum bag but I think many people would be surprised.
BRIAN BLACKWELL I think I am going to have other candidates' support for the most part, so I think that is going to ...
BRIAN BLACKWELL I'm thrilled at the opportunity. I'm humbled. We had a great voter turnout this year and it means a ...
BRIAN BLACKWELL The student body president is non-partisan. You have to take the view of the students. What the stud...
BRIAN BLACKWELL We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidat...
KENNETH BLACKWELL Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
LAWANA BLACKWELL It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
LAWANA BLACKWELL Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
LAWANA BLACKWELL True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
LAWANA BLACKWELL He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionall...
LAWANA BLACKWELL (Vintage) was undefeated and had scored about 45 points per game, and we held them to six, so we did...
DAVID BLACKWELL What I've told everybody to do is take a deep breath and relax,
KENNETH BLACKWELL You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.
KENNETH BLACKWELL I'm one of those guys who tries to stay even keel, and I always say one guy doesn't make a class. Bu...
DAVID BLACKWELL After the verdicts the coroner said he could have killed up to 1,500, nothing would surprise me.
MR. BLACKWELL We're trying to show the students that they have an option in terms of spending those Kalamazoo Prom...
BARRY BLACKWELL The Kalamazoo Promise has opened some doors that had been previously closed.
BARRY BLACKWELL In an effort to better inform the public, the parish administration thinks a single organization sho...
BARRY BLACKWELL It's really interesting having him, as his style of play is so different from what we have around he...
BILL BLACKWELL I'm trying to drag them into finding the market for this project. I love world music.
CHRIS BLACKWELL The DVDs are not cut to be stimulating visually. They're cut actually more to be soporific, in a sen...
CHRIS BLACKWELL [Mr. Blackwell, who was the Ohio Co-Chairman of Mr. Bush's Presidential Campaign, has dismissed the ...
MR. BLACKWELL Maybe at some point, I could see a time when sidewalks are in, but right now they're not.
CHRIS BLACKWELL If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL It is well worth the efforts of a life-time to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on ...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL We've got four seniors this year who are giving us some good leadership. We lost three, but we gaine...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL Love is the doorway to deception...
D. BLACKWELL I lied, ... I didn't know if he was a cop.
MR. BLACKWELL It's been difficult to get him fit and when he does get fit he tends to get a whack on it.
KEVIN BLACKWELL African-Americans know I spent part of my childhood in public housing, I am a natural heir of the Re...
KEN BLACKWELL Of all the things the intruders did, tearing up stuff, breaking things, they forgot to get the most ...
GREG BLACKWELL The developer is going slowly, but it is still forging ahead.
CHRIS BLACKWELL There is nothing to clarify about David Healy, I have had no bid for him and he's not going anywhere...
KEVIN BLACKWELL Quite honestly, I haven't really noticed a lapse of any kind since the strike began.
JERRY BLACKWELL The portion of the road still covered with snow is on a north aspect and takes longer to melt off th...
BILL BLACKWELL The fax machine had been unplugged at the other end.
DAVID BLACKWELL But it did take a while to get the fax in.
DAVID BLACKWELL It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.
LAWANA BLACKWELL To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite wh...
MORTON BLACKWELL Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and ...
KENNETH BLACKWELL It would be like The Rock versus Seth Green. Now, tell me who he is
TAMMY BLACKWELL Quite honestly, I haven't really noticed a lapse of any kind since the strike began. It seems as tho...
JERRY BLACKWELL That's always the worst thing — to lose one.
DAVID BLACKWELL These guys are getting interviewed early, obviously we're on them earlier. I think they get tired of...
DAVID BLACKWELL It was a great football game. (The Crushers) scored on their first drive, but we held them after tha...
DAVID BLACKWELL We're awfully pleased to have another tool in the arsenal. Such a large number of people continue to...
DAVID BLACKWELL Our expectations are very high. The hardest thing for kick return teams is when you're constant..
DAVID BLACKWELL He's been on kickoff coverage before and done a good job of it, and I've been looking for a way to g...
DAVID BLACKWELL I don’t like seeing you hit.”
“Well, to be quite honest, I don’t like being hit unless ...
TAMMY BLACKWELL We got off to a slow start, ... It took us three innings to get us going. This is a better Natchez t...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL She played fast-pitch in the spring, and she wasn't going to play slow-pitch,
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and pr...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL The intensity numbers, if properly measured, are really important. Preference numbers don't amount t...
MORTON BLACKWELL Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount.
KENNETH BLACKWELL The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give th...
KENNETH BLACKWELL My love for you will outlast this beach, this ocean, this planet. When judgement comes and Heaven fi...
SCARLET BLACKWELL In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans...
KENNETH BLACKWELL Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only onc...
LAWANA BLACKWELL You can be critical about our finishing, but it just wouldn't seem to drop,
KEVIN BLACKWELL We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
KENNETH BLACKWELL Each bowl has its own unique appeal and own unique way of doing gifts. That is what makes bowl gifts...
GREG BLACKWELL When we got into our offices, we were hoping for the best. But intruders got in.
GREG BLACKWELL Just about every game this year, the first inning has killed us. The girls have butterflies. They're...
GARY BLACKWELL What we need here is if schools are going to stay (with it), young kids need to start now. We run up...
GARY BLACKWELL Our hitting was off — we should have been hitting this girl the whole game. It took to the fourth o...
GARY BLACKWELL We are 2-0 down but it's a seven-match series. There's still a long way to go.
IAN BLACKWELL It's always a nice feeling to be among the wickets, especially on these slow turners.
IAN BLACKWELL There's been a definite transformation in my lifestyle. It's probably something I should have done f...
IAN BLACKWELL This being a non-conference game, you think maybe the girls will let down a little. So we worked har...
LAURA BLACKWELL All of these games are going to be tough in this conference. I was worried about having that layoff ...
LAURA BLACKWELL We didn't really execute as a team, and we had a lot of turnovers. But against Middle Georgia, we pl...
LAURA BLACKWELL with sunshine there would be a lifting of the darkness.
MR. BLACKWELL Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took ...
OTIS WILLIAMS We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they pla...
OTIS WILLIAMS I'm the glue that holds everything together.
OTIS WILLIAMS The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
OTIS WILLIAMS I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talent...
OTIS WILLIAMS I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arr...
OTIS RUSH Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.
OTIS RUSH I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys th...
OTIS RUSH I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
OTIS RUSH I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then...
OTIS RUSH I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
OTIS RUSH I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, ...
OTIS RUSH Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
OTIS RUSH Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
OTIS RUSH A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
OTIS RUSH I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it wa...
OTIS REDDING If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-a...
OTIS REDDING As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series o...
OTIS REDDING If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can'...
OTIS REDDING Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a ...
JOHNNY OTIS I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking becau...
CARRE OTIS I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doc...
CARRE OTIS I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise i...
JAMES OTIS When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I cou...
JOHNNY OTIS My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from t...
CARRE OTIS Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, a...
JAMES OTIS We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. O...
CARRE OTIS But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscie...
JAMES OTIS A man's house is his castle.
JAMES OTIS It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care litt...
JAMES OTIS Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the ...
CARRE OTIS But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the une...
CARRE OTIS It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.
CARRE OTIS Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
CARRE OTIS When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performi...
CARRE OTIS Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until ...
JAMES OTIS Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can...
CARRE OTIS I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there...
CARRE OTIS I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather t...
CARRE OTIS Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role ...
CARRE OTIS The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get th...
CARRE OTIS Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can...
CARRE OTIS My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially durin...
CARRE OTIS Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
CARRE OTIS I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.
CARRE OTIS I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't w...
CARRE OTIS I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to la...
CARRE OTIS Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the ...
CARRE OTIS Taxation without representation is tyranny.
JAMES OTIS This is a true brotherhood of wrestling people here in the Valley. We'll handle this situation and d...
OTIS DOWDY [Lee] values how much he was provided exposure early on by Bill Darden and others.
CLARENCE OTIS Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some peop...
CARRE OTIS These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the her...
JAMES OTIS My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into...
JAMES OTIS That's frightening and, frankly, it scares the hell out me. We're going to have an epidemic of lung ...
OTIS BRAWLEY The things we've done might look frantic, but they are calculated moves. Our objective is to win a c...
OTIS SMITH In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope o...
CARRE OTIS It's a pleasure and honor to be here, knowing what y'all have been through.
OTIS WILLIAMS Motown is the soundtrack of our lives. These are songs we have always wanted to do, and now, happily...
OTIS WILLIAMS It's a terrible situation, but you just have to roll with the punches. I don't worry about it. There...
OTIS WILLIAMS The Tempts have always been known for great lead singers. Today we have three of the greatest leads ...
OTIS WILLIAMS I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented t...
OTIS WILLIAMS The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music...
OTIS TAYLOR Taxation without representation is tyranny
JAMES OTIS We felt it was important to do something that really reflected Joe's passion.
CLARENCE OTIS I lie silently in bed
With pleasant pillow under head—
Exploring truths of a long lost e...
T.D. OTIS People like Smokey Bones, but they don't come with the visit frequency that we would like. We think ...
CLARENCE OTIS That's one of the things the Tempts have always been, experimental. We decided ... to sit down and c...
OTIS WILLIAMS Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took ...
OTIS WILLIAMS We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'M...
OTIS WILLIAMS I'm not impressed with the state of music and the lyrics, guys on stage grabbing their Johnson. That...
OTIS WILLIAMS [There isn't much anyone can do about pump-related pain except grin and bear it, said Otis Williams ...
OTIS WILLIAMS My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make thei...
CARRE OTIS Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to...
CARRE OTIS I only served with them 64 days as a mechanic in Italy,
JAMES OTIS It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little f...
JAMES OTIS But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there i...
CARRE OTIS I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instrume...
JAMES OTIS My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acre...
CARRE OTIS My costume wasn't quite as sexy as hers. She caught me completely off guard. I didn't know who this ...
MARK OTIS We had outstanding financial results despite some difficult prior year comparisons.
CLARENCE OTIS I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn...
CARRE OTIS Jesus will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we could have done and didn't
GEORGE OTIS I kept calling to try and go out with her. Her mother kept screening the calls.
MARK OTIS I could not have made it without the support from the community and family. I still miss my wife, bu...
LARRY OTIS It is all about how God can use my abilities for the future. It is God using me. I'm just a tool.
LARRY OTIS I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers...
CARRE OTIS While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similariti...
CARRE OTIS Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity an...
CARRE OTIS I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.
CARRE OTIS Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems t...
CARRE OTIS MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider th...
JAMES OTIS [Brawley blames poor access to health care and lower standards of care for black women.] While we ha...
OTIS BRAWLEY Buy my records so I can buy a Porsche!
OTIS TAYLOR There's no need to panic, and this could actually make our team stronger in the long run. We have to...
OTIS SMITH Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the s...
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL