Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Barth

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

John Barth

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

Justin Timberlake

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

Justin Timberlake

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Julie Burchill

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

Josh Hartnett

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

Joyce Meyer

Take a firm grasp on God’s sovereignty and trust His love even when you don’t understand His purpose.

Josh Peck

I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.

Joseph Conrad

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

Kary Mullis

Its not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents.

Leonard Cohen

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

Layne Staley

I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?

Lauren Ambrose

Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.

Lance Secretan

Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.

Lance Reddick

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

Kurtis Blow

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

Joy Bryant

I love flowy hippie dresses.

Joseph Goebbels

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

Justin Bieber

I leave the hip thrusts to Michael Jackson.

Jules Renard

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Karl Jaspers

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Karl Kraus

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

Karl Kraus

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

Julius Wellhausen

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

Ouida

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

Kanye West

She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all"

Kanye West

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

Kanye West

I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that I'm gonna be bigger than Wal-Mart.

Kanye West

Slavery is more mental than anything

Kanye West

Oh am I late? No, I already graduated And you can live through anything if Magic made it They say I talk with so much emphasis Ooh they so sensitive

Kanye West

Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me.

June Jordan

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.