Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tupac Shakur

Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.

Joe Johnson

That's the biggie right there. We earned that one. It took everything we had from every guy on this team. But we had to have this one.

Kanye West

I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.

Elliott Wilson

Biggie was part of a dying breed of real lyricists. He continued the East Coast tradition of Big Daddy Kane or LL of being heavy on lyrics with metaphors and similes. He was a great storyteller.

Rico Love

Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.

Marilyn Smith

Separation of power is a biggie to me, and she's trampled it into the ground. This government isn't founded on Ronda's church.

Ed Oxenbould

I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

Faith Evans

When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'

Ken Ham

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Matt Carle

I was joking with Chris and Brian up there, how all three of us were just glad this thing was coming to an end after all the hype in the last three months. Now they're both competing for a national championship tomorrow (today).

Julie Martin

Kingma is just a phenomenal player, both offensively and defensively. She really got into Dunbar in the second half and was a great leader for them.

Don Williams

Kim woke up to hearing some people screaming. We smelled some smoke and we both walked out on the balcony and saw these embers flying by.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Kevin is a big guard who can defend both positions on the perimeter, ... We liked the effort he put forth during summer league play and wanted to take a second look at him.

Ed Steadham

Keystone was a very important part of our business. We build helicopters, they did the completion that finished our helicopters. We knew the company and were impressed with the company. The marriage has enhanced the both of us.

Bob Cortelyou

Kiev will be the latest destination in Delta's expansion into the key business and leisure markets of Eastern Europe. Delta will be the only U.S. carrier to serve Kiev, and business travelers on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as friends and family of Ukrainian heritage in the United States, will look forward to this new non-stop service between New York-JFK and Kiev.

Peter Warrick

Kit and I talked about this a long time ago. He said it would be a great system for the both of us. I never really thought it would happen. Then, once I got here (for a visit), Kit told me about the coach and how he is such a great guy. Here I am.

Bob Tipton

I think that most people that are on those roads are familiar with them, and the rare instance that they aren't familiar with them, we do have two of these signs.

S. Walker

It got really familiar. It's not something you want to be familiar with.

Mike Woodson

He's been here and he's familiar with everything we do.

Randy Sanders

I'm familiar with what he teaches and he does a good job.

Tom Leighton

This is a very important project for the southern end of town, ... Most of the people here are familiar with the problems here with the bridges.

Bryan Colangelo

It's good to see familiar faces. I'm happy that the team is doing well.

Travis Wight

It's nice to go to a familiar place in Albany.

Paul Murphy

It's nice to see a lot of familiar faces. It's great to see the support for high school football.

Ivan Cleary

It's been forced on us right from the word go that we have to improve and do that while being without familiar faces.

Stephen Graham

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

Ari Fleischer

Kennebunkport has a very strong sense of family for him.

Patricia Johnson

It ain't about the money, it's about the people. I see them more than some of their family do.

Quentin Thomas

I talked to my family back home and my mom and we just prayed on it. It was something I went through and I'm not going to sit here and say it was something I'm glad I went through ? but it's helped me.

Josh Duell

I talked to my family about that, and they're fine with it. They just wanted me to be happy.

Robbie Loomis

I think it's a good time for me to reprioritize my personal life and get things figured out there. In life, for years, I've had racing, God and family. I'm trying to get it God, family then racing.

Pablo Gomez

He was a hero. But I can't let my family go through this again.

Trevor Noah

I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane.

Tamsin Egerton

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

Jamie Clayton

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

Warren Beaulah

We may just have to let him wear No. 44. I told him before the season that I have a lot of expectations for him. He hasn't quite met them.

John Gibbons

He was outstanding. I still don't know why the Mets got rid of him.

Veerappa Moily

I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.

Sam Altman

You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.

Walter Mosley

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Robert Sterling

In the off-line world, people use different payment methods in different circumstances,

Keith Richards

I haven't met him yet, I can't wait. I'm a Stones fan.

John Myers

I met them through Xbox Live, where you can talk to other players through a headset,

Donna Norris

I would tell him the 'Bad Man' took her and did this to her. The name just kind of stuck.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Alice Cooper

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Richelle Mead

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Umberto Eco

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Rick Riordan

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Caterina Fake

Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed. We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things.

Richard Avedon

i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall of rain approaching from the west desert was pretty spectacular, too. along with being gorgeous, it was sooo muddy. which made driving home in no shoes so very fun :) if only i could post photos here! a picture is worth a thousand words, yes? If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

Richard Avedon

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

Richard Avedon

I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember it either. But this photograph is here now to prove that no amount of kindness on my part could make this photograph mean exactly what he.. or even I.. wanted it to mean. It's a reminder of the wonder and terror that is a photograph.

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

Richard Avedon

There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.

Richard Avedon

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Ryan McGinley

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

Umberto Eco

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Star Jones

No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.