The best Quotes and Sayings

You have to work on yourself in your 20s 'cause if you don't, then you'll turn 30, and all the shitty parts of your personality will solidify, and that'll just be who you are now. Your 20s are an opportunity to fish trash out of the lake before it freezes over.

I've never faked it. I've never loved someone that much. I don't hand out trophies for showing up. Grab an orange slice and a Gatorade. Get back down there. Let's see some hustle, Andersen.

We're at the top of the Hill, and now we're going downward.

Do I think I'm ready for a world title this year? Hell, yes!

I wanted to say something to the Mayweather camp that keeps running their mouth, man. Don't worry - you get your fights up and I will whoop your ass anywhere!

They all said I was scared. Now I get to show everyone what I’m made of.

I have a competitive spirit. I never get angry in the ring, I always make it about boxing.

I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.

I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

Some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.

I think going to college for that one year was probably the best thing I have ever done.

Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life.

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

I never talk about my private life.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

My hobby is silence.

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

I'm almost totally politically inactive.

I've avoided the press and a lot of stuff that would have made me more visible just because it's not my style.

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

I'm not so much of a person for causes, unless I specifically - for instance, if it's my cause, or some poor people's, I'll try to help. But you won't find me playing for any peace candidates - or any candidates.

If everybody'd agree to quit using money, I'd be happy to play for free every day for awhile. But I don't play benefits or any kind of fund-raisers. I prefer to play at hospitals, for people who otherwise can't see us. But I can't see playing for causes, whatever the cause may be.

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I always approach film as a fan.

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.