Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cornel West

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.

Cormac McCarthy

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.

Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

Cormac McCarthy

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

Cormac McCarthy

Teaching writing is a hustle.

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Suppose... the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what? .... Are we strong enough to refute the party line and listen deep, listen true to the body as a powerful and holy being?

E. W. Howe

Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.

Dyan Cannon

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy

Dwight Yoakam

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

Dwight Howard

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

Dwight Howard

I just want to show Atalanta who I really am and show my teammates what kind of teammate I am.

Dwyane Wade

When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people.

Dwyane Wade

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

Dwyane Wade

I think that work has been the key for me. Just like they say shooting will become easy if you just keep working at it, well, I love the dribble game-that brings excitement to the game.

Dwyane Wade

Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.

Courtney Barnett

I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

Courtney Love

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

Colin Meloy

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

Colin Mochrie

When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.

Colin Quinn

I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.

Colin Quinn

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

Joel Salatin

That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.

Joan Rivers

It's been so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up whom.

Bobby Womack

I was on stage with Cyndi Lauper, and my trousers split. It seemed like she was going to sing for ever.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

Daniel Johns

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

Antony Gormley

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Abdullah Ibrahim

They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

The playoffs, that's just the way that it is. You're not going to get too many transition (baskets).

Al Horford

We always talked about how we were going to do big things.

When you get up on the stage, do your turn and keep going.

Fred Couples

We were telling each other, 'Let's make some birdies.