Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ethan Coen

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

Ethan Suplee

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Ernest Renan

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Ernest Bevin

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

Caroline Rhea

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.

Carmen Electra

One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.

Muriel Rukeyser

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

Moby

In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment.

Mindy Kaling

Future hipsters will love me ironically.

Mindy Kaling

If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

Harry Styles

If you're going to get in trouble for hitting someone, might as well hit them hard.

George Henry Lewes

Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.

George H. W. Bush

No generation can escape history.

George H. W. Bush

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.

George H. W. Bush

A time of historic change is no time for recklessness.

Harmony Korine

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.

Harold B. Lee

You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul.

Graham Nash

Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.

H. G. Wells

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

Jayne Mansfield

I've got the strangest build. It's big in the hips, small in the waist and I've got these enormous ... shoulders.

Jay-Z

Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?

Jay-Z

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

Jay-Z

Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

Jay London

I went out with a promiscuous impressionist. She did everybody.

Byron White

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Joseph Joubert

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

K'naan

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

Murray Rothbard

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Molly Ivins

Of course, it has never paid much.

Milton Berle

Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together

Milton Berle

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.