- “A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It’s a theatrica! event.”
- “And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We’re lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.”
- “Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.”
- “But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.”
- “I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.”
- “I dress to kill, but tastefully.”
- “I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.”
- “I guess I’ve always lived the glamorous life of a star. It’s nothing new – I used to spend down to the last dime.”
- “I have fun with my clothes onstage; it’s not a concert you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show.”
- “I like to be surrounded by splendid things.”
- “I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.”
- “I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.”
- “I was never too keen on the British music press. They’ve called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn’t write our own songs.”
- “I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.”
- “I’m hopeless with money; I simply spend what I’ve got.”
- “I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.”
- “I’m not into business at all.”
- “I’m very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years’ time.”
- “If we’re weird onstage, I don’t know what you’d call the Tubes.”
- “In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.”
- “I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”
- “I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.”
- “I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my ‘Will Smith’ thing and get paid.”
- “I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.”
- “If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don’t think there’s anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.”
- “In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.”
- “It’s quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can’t imagine what else I could do beyond this. It’s really a bittersweet kind of feeling.”
- “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”
- “My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.”
- “On learning to swim: I’m too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say «Now kick your feet.»”
- “There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?”
- “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
- “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”
- “Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.”
- “You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.”
- “I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.” – Dave Barry
- “Some things you just can’t question. Like you can’t question why two plus two is four. So don’t question it, don’t try to look it up. I don’t know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don’t know.” – Shaquille O’Neal
- “The psychology instructor had just finished a lecture on mental health and was giving an oral test. Speaking about manic depression, she asked, ‘How would you diagnose a patient who walks back and forth screaming at the top of his lungs one minute, then sits in a chair weeping uncontrollably the next?’ A young man in the rear raised his hand and answered, ‘A basketball coach?’” – Old Basketball Joke
- “Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It’s up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.” – Bill Walton
- “These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.” – Charles Barkley
- “This [basketball] is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn’t have spectators.” – Dick Vertleib
- “My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or an aunt.” – Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice
- “I told him, ‘Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?’ He said, ‘Coach, I don’t know and I don’t care.” – Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player
- “What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?” – Woody Allen
- “I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I’m the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I’m the good-quality dog meat. I’m the Alpo of the NBA.” – Shaquille O’Neal
- “We can’t win at home. We can’t win on the road. As general manager, I just can’t figure out where else to play.” – Pat Williams, Orlando Magic general manager, on his team’s 7-27 record in 1992
- “We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors.” – Weldon Drew
- “There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.” – Abe Lemons
- “We’re shooting 100 percent – 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.” – Norm Stewart
- “That’s a terrible defensive effort by Robert Horry. He didn’t even make it difficult for Rasheed Wallace to score.”
Snapper: “Well, what do you expect? Earlier you said that Wallace could be one of the best players in the game, and now you want Robert Horry to guard him one-on-one?”
Bill: “No, I said that Rasheed could be the best player in the game.” – Bill Walton & Snapper Jones
- “God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.” – David Nicholas
- “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement
- “Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life.” – Ana Alas
- “Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.” – Catherine O’Hara
- “There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.” – N.P. Willis
- “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.” – Frederick L. Knowles
- “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” – George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
- “Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!” – Lord Byron, Childe Harold
- “Night is a world lit by itself.” – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
- “Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “By night, an atheist half believes in God.” – Edward Young, Night Thoughts
- “O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.” – George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy
- “Moonlight is sculpture.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night’s worry is added to the day’s sweat.” – Martin H. Fischer
- “Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline
- “What I take from my nights, I add to my days.” – Leon de Rotrou, Vencelas
- “Mine is the night, with all her stars.” – Edward Young
- “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. ” – Abraham Lincoln
- “People with opinions just go around bothering each other.” – Buddha
- “To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common.” – John Stuart Mill
- “My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.” – William Jones
- “We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.” – John Stuart Mill
- “The world is governed by opinion.” – Thomas Hobbes
- “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” – William Ralph Inge
- “When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you!” – Unknown
- “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F Kennedy
- “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” – Katherine Mansfield
- “I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.” – Douglas Adams
- “I can’t control my destiny, I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There’s only now, there’s only here. Give in to love or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today.” – Johnathan Larson
- “As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine
- “Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.” – Henry Miller
- “If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.” – Win Borden
- “He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.” – Frederick Smith
- “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
- “Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.” – Gael Greene
- “If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” – Annie Dillard
- “Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.” – Herodotus
- “If music be the food of love, play on; /Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die.” – Shakespeare
- “There is only one better thing than music – live music.” – Jacek Bukowski
- “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley
- “Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “I hate music, especially when it’s played.” – Jimmy Durante
- “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot
- “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo
- “Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.” – Martin Luther
- “Music is what I love and it’s what I feel and it’s in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through is an incredible felling and I am just really thankful for it.” – Mariah Carey
- “Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.” – Oscar Wilde
- “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” – George Eliot
- “The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, «Is there a meaning to music?» My answer would be, «Yes.» And «Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?» My answer to that would be, «No.»” – Aaron Copland
- “My boyfriend’s a tigger.” – Winnie the Pooh
- “Before I met you I never knew what it was like; to look at someone and smile for no reason.” – Unknown
- “If he loves you then don’t waste that, you might never be able to get it back.” – Laurel
- “Having a good boyfriend is like having a good bra, its all about support!” – Unknown
- “Every time I hear your voice, I hear another reason to keep you forever” – Suzanne
- “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” – Friedrich Halm
- “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison
- “My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don’t have sex-ever. Now that the milk is free, we’ve both become lactose intolerant.” – Margaret Cho
- “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” – Leo Buscaglia
- “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.” – Tagore
- “My boyfriend calls me «princess», but I think of myself more along the lines of «monkey» and «retard».” – Alicia Silverstone
- “It’s been said that you only truly fall in love once, but I don’t believe it. Every time I see you, I fall in love all over again” – Unknown
- “I wouldn’t call him a slave. I don’t whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.” – Shannon Elizabeth
- “True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Jason Jordan
- “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson
- “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
- “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.” – Peter F. Drucker
- “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.” – William Boetcker