#whitney

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing. ↗

— LaToya London

#ballad #big #bring #came #carey

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#dealing #eradicate #fact #faculty #idea

I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri. ↗

— Parley P. Pratt

#orsen-f-whitney #life

Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been. ↗

— Bobby Brown

#been #fun #have fun #i #newspaper

With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift. ↗

— Justin Guarini

#brought #gift #great #great gift #her

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#her #houston #like #name #sell

I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay? ↗

— Whitney Houston

#been #ever #fat #get #girl

Money buys things that people with money never even realize they’ve bought, like time and freedom. -- Whitney Otto ↗

— Whitney Otto

#freedom

Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one. ↗

— Tina Fey

#humor #whitney-houston #funny

she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever kissed her, feeling faint with joy when he began to kiss her back, his mouth moving with fierce tenderness, then opening with fiery demand over hers, until their breaths were mingled gasps, and they were straining to one another. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#judith-mcnaught #love #whitney #whitney-my-love #love