Famous Quotes & Sayings

Corey Taylor

I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has made it plausible to have your very own platform to stand and spew nonsense from on an hourly basis. There's an old saying: when everyone is special, no one will be. These days, everybody thinks they're special, so no one really does anything to be special anymore.

Corey Taylor

Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests - sometimes the very people doing the protesting have NO IDEA what they are talking about.

Corey Taylor

The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.

Corey Taylor

I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say it, preferring to keep cribbed notes I could come back to if necessary. I wanted this to feel like a conversation because it was what I wanted to say that mattered, not how it looked on paper.

Corey Taylor

The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline and a childlike tragedy. The first time I was on a stage, it wasn't even a music concert. It was a magic show. That being said, the life I lead now isn't what you would call 'destiny'.

Corey Taylor

It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I'd let the wind wrap around me like fire and slip into the unknown with a moment's hesitation.

Corey Taylor

You ever tasted a smell? It's a very strange feeling. I've done it quite a few times and it still freaks me out.

Corey Taylor

It's one giant Bowflex commercial covered in booze vomit.

Corey Taylor

Justin Bieber is a douche bag. Now that I have your attention, let's talk about cars.

Corey Taylor

You can make a thousand promises to yourself that you'll take that same fantastic love and give it to someone else, but the moment you see that person with someone else, it's like a gut full of razorblades. It never gets easier. And it shouldn't, really.

Corey Taylor

Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but lost the impact it once had, because everyone thinks different things in this world are evil. PETA thinks what we do to animals is evil, but I think their overzealous approach is evil. Evil, in more ways than one, is comparable to the truth: definitions vary from one individual to the next.

Corey Taylor

If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.

Corey Taylor

Twitter. Honestly, that's all I really have to say to explain insanity.

Corey Taylor

Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

Corey Taylor

I don't know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane hairstyle. But change is coming; it is inevitable. It is as steady and reliable as a ticking clock.

Robert Morgan

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

Kurt Vonnegut

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

Kurt Vonnegut

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

William Shakespeare

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Cassandra Clare

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

Muriel Spark

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Kirsten Dunst

To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.

Kathleen Norris

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.

Gloria Swanson

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Grace Kelly

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Jenna Elfman

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

George Henry Lewes

Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Kate Chopin

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

Ken Kesey

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all

Kirstie Alley

You are not in business to be popular.

Germaine Greer

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.