Alakija Foundation Quotes & Sayings

I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's ... none of us can. I hate saying no to people. — Morgan Freeman

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. — Gustave Flaubert

The train blows through town
delivering reality,
slapping my face and screaming,
"You are alone"
Rose colored memories drown,
taking their last breath. — Kellie Elmore

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long. — Keith Urban

I've always wanted to work with children, to help people, and to be funny. — Kym Whitley

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. — Andy Goldsworthy

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed. — Rob Zombie

Also, people who did drugs were boring. Hopelessly, relentlessly boring. Drugs made them either too slow or too fast, and mostly they talked about drugs. — Cassandra Clare

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. — N. T. Wright

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit. — Al Yankovic