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I`ve written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

- Jackson Browne

(Recorded in 2004 at Chaos and Order Basscamp Studios during Cena`s rare breaks from the ring, YOU CAN`T SEE ME features 17 original tracks. Paying tribute to the classic two-man rhyming crews of the past, Cena and Tha Trademarc (Marc Predka) nimbly trade verses throughout the album.) You almost never hear a rap crew today working like EPMD or 3rd Bass, ... I wanted to bring that style back a little and get away from one MC up there doing his thing. Working this way let us attack a song from different directions and create a more dynamic flow.

- John Cena

We were lucky enough to work with Will, and that kid is a monster. He just came in, spit his verses and then got to work on the beat. And the whole time, we were like, `Wow, we can`t believe this is happening!` We`re fans of the Black Eyed Peas for a long time, and we always wanted to do a collaboration with them.

- Nicole Scherzinger

Sometimes I`ll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren`t clicking. And when they do come to me, I`m in the middle of that same verse!

- Tom Araya

I wouldn`t say I`m a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don`t tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

- Alejandro Amenábar

The school district and Ministerium will begin the service with a welcome. Then (the Rev.) Alex Perednia will read scripture verses and give a eulogy.

- Steve Adams

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

- Aleksander Suglobov

Many of today`s verses are prose and bad prose.

- Aleksander Suglobov

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

- Alex Cunningham

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

- Andrea Cerutti

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

- Andrea Cerutti

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

- Andrew Greeley

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

- Angela Bono

I watch him every Saturday on TV, and I get so nervous for him, ... He calls me before and after games to see how I do and to wish me luck. We both pray for each other and send each other Bible verses.

- Artie Bartholomew

When I look down at my shoes, it really gives me motivation, ... I write certain things that can motivate me. Here`s my favorite one, Philippians 4:13 - `I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.` That`s the kind of verses I write on there that really give me motivation.

- Ball State

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn`t, yet these same poems make me gay

- Marcus Aurelius