Hayley Westenra quotes

  • Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

  • There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

  • Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  • Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

  • Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

  • He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

  • Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

  • It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

  • The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

  • Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.