Famous Quotes & Sayings

Young Jeezy

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

Yolanda Adams

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

Yanis Varoufakis

My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Tina Turner

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Imelda May

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

Isabella Bird

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Gin Wigmore

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.

Young Jeezy

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

Will Sergeant

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Ann Smith

The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.

David Eagleman

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

Chuck Schumer

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

Natasha Trethewey

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

Nathan Myhrvold

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

Chuck Hagel

The 21st century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organizations.

Hayao Miyazaki

The 21st century is a complex and unforeseeable epoch. Our thinking habits and our values, which until now looked settled, are being challenged.

Helio Castroneves

I tell you, if we would be like NASCAR - have bumpers - for sure I would have won the race. But this is not NASCAR.

Dave Barry

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Alan Kulwicki

It's basically the same, just darker.

Chad Knaus

Drive it like you stole it, homie.

Kevin Harvick

NASCAR should pay for the development of the car of the future.

Joe Nemechek

NASCAR is just trying to do whatever they can to keep the series under control,

Bobby Unser

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

Helio Castroneves

It was just not enough. If we were like NASCAR and had bumpers, I'm sure I would have won the race.

Jesse Ventura

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

Tyler, The Creator

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

Jill Scott

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Marsha Thomason

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

Tom Sizemore

I think I may be in - potentially - three classics. That sounds like I'm bragging.

Marney Cox

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Nelson Peltz

The name 'Mondelez' I hate. It sounds like a disease.

Erik Crawford

We had opportunities to step up and make plays, and we didn't.

Rajon Rondo

We've got so many talented guys. As long as someone's stepping up, we don't need a (consistent threat), but in the long run, we'll need someone consistent.

Sidney Govou

We've made a big step towards the title.

David McClure

I thought he stepped up real big." ()

Johnny Whitaker

We are not stepping back to a time when we are going to have anything even approaching hazing.

Mike Canales

We'll find a guy. We'll wait and see who steps up.

Ken Sprague

We were intimidated before we stepped on the court.

Helio Castroneves

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

Dick Pound

I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying,

Ron Turner

I think they're going to concentrate on stopping the run, which is what they do.

Josh Fodor

He was stopping everything. We had a lot of opportunities but couldn't get any in.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Walter Kirn

Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

Marcus Thomas

Tired, basically. And I really didn't understand how come we weren't stopping them.

Amy Winehouse

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Isaiah Tucker

We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.

Ed Pastor

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.