I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the voice that brought her out of the shower!"
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat. , Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi. ]
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
You know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it.
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments]. Much important information about the target atoms or nuclei or their assemblage has been obtained in this way. In witness of this importance one can point to the unusual concentration of scattering enthusiasts among earlier Nobel Laureate physicists. One could say that physicists just love to perform or interpret scattering experiments.
I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.
Worship leaders, let's choose to praise rather than perform when leading.
To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.
I've always called myself a writerperformer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.
I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.
One should perform even an insignificant task with respect.
It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.
Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.
When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.
I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
I thought - being a musician doesn't help your medical credibility really. Although I started to rethink that when I learned that Albert Einstein was quite a violinist and in fact would perform a lot with symphonies. So if it's good enough for Albert, it's good enough for me.
I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!
You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.