Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Maynard Keynes

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Lukacs

But then history does not only consist of documents.

John Lydon

I've always despised the hippies.

John Lewis Gaddis

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

John Legend

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

John Legend

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

John Lennon

It made me high. It really did.

John Lennon

Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

John Lennon

Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

John Lennon

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

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.

Jimmy Buffett

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

Emily Procter

I always wear high heels.

Ely Culbertson

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Ellen Hopkins

hindsight is gained through experience

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.

Liu Wen

I never wore high heels in my hometown.

Lynda Barry

These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Ludacris

The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.