Bessie Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
-- Bessie Smith

#Time #Long #Ends
I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
-- Bessie Smith

#Want #Drummer #Tempo
No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
-- Bessie Smith

#Women #Black History #Done
The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.
-- Bessie Smith

#Tombstone #Singing #World
I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.
-- Bessie Smith

#Sexy #Dog #Hot
I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.
-- Bessie Smith

#Beauty #Children #Angel
There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
-- Bessie Smith

#Men #Fool #Nineteen
When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.
-- Bessie Smith

#Life #Spring #Mean
Listen to my story and everything will come out true
-- Bessie Smith

#Truth #Stories

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.
His time's forever, everywhere his place.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.
I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.Â

Bessie Smith famous quotes

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