Abdulhamid Ii Quotes & Sayings

I never try to be religious. I never try to be any type of religious cat. Spiritual, yes, but religion, when you get into that you get into a category where you lock yourself in and people look at you a certain way and then they become that way. Nah, I'm still an MC, I'm an MC first. People try to figure out my origin, at the end of the day it's just clever songs. — Killah Priest

Real knowledge, true knowledge, comes from knowing why. — Thomas Lewis

In 1908, Abdulhamid II established an Islamic university in Beijing, China, to serve China's Hui Muslims. — Firas Alkhateeb

When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny. — Emo Philips

Dream of me, he said.
Dream of you? I'm doing that while I'm awake. — Erin McCahan

To hear an artist be transparent is one of the greatest things they could ever do for their fans. I love that, when I see my fans on the road we have real conversations and it's not even that I do it as some big ploy to have album sales. I do it because it's important for them to understand who I am. So, whatever backlash comes along with me being transparent, there's nothing I can do about it. — Sevyn Streeter

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant. — Edward St. Aubyn

It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives. — Wallace Stevens

It's war that makes generals — Seth Godin

My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that, — Gilda Radner

I was an English major in college! — Maggie Siff

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth. — Tahir Shah

The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway. — Steven Magee