rap quotes

“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. ”

“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. ”

“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. ”

“If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him. ”

“ The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate. ”

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. ”

“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”

“I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.”

“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

“I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.”

“We may define therapy as a search for value.”

“I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.”

“Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.”

“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”

“America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.”

“I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.”

“Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.”

“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”

“People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.”

“All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.”

“To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.”

“Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.”

“The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.”

“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.”

“There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.”

“When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.”

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”

“Sin is geographical.”

“Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”