Best Nelly Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life. — Nelly

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away ... — Nelly Furtado

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable."
"Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven. — Emily Bronte

I am happy to see him on the couch, his huge feet on the arm, dirtying the cloth. I am happy to hear him stomping upstairs across the floorboards and whipping towels at his sisters after he has showered. I am happy to hear him screaming for no reason, bounding down the stairs, reaching the bottom and wildly petting Nelly, shaking her head back and forth, and calling her a good girl. I think how it doesn't matter who shot my son. My son is back. — Yannick Murphy

When she walks she walks with passion when she talks, she talks like she can handle it when she asks for something, boy she means it she know you would do [anything] to keep her by your side she'll make you work hard make you spend hard make you want all, all of her she'll make you fall real fast [in love]. — Nelly Furtado

It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There is an alienation from emotion in it, a Nervous Nelly fear of letting go and being "exposed." As an attitude towards life, it betrays a perpetual adolescence. Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics. — Camille Paglia

Strength of 100 men? I'd probably just get mad and hurt somebody and end up in jail. I think invisibility would probably be the best thing. I could be like, 'You know what, let me just see what these folks are talking about over here.' Then you could sneak into Rams cheerleaders' locker room. — Nelly

I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I. — Fergie

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them. — Antonio Davis

Dance is the mathematics of the Soul — Nelly Mazloum

I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill. — Nelly Ben Hayoun

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot. — Nelly Furtado

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self. — Nelly

My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy. — Nelly

I wasn't a kid when I came out. Soulja Boy was 16. I'm saying that when he came out he was a kid so it was naturally a show for him. It's not about the music right away. It's a show for him. Not that he's not putting enough effort into his music, but how much effort can a 16 year old put into his music because as you mature and get older even the songs he's doing now has evolved and he's looking back. — Nelly

I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game. — Nelly

It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album! — Nelly Furtado

I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers. — Nelly Ben Hayoun

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference. — Nelly

Anyone who looks for life can find it ... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures. — Weegee

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best. — Nelly Furtado

To get the Nickelodeon award? That's like 'it.' It's one of the best. It's definitely where you want to be in your career. — Nelly

Yoga has been something that's always there to take with me and practice throughout any journey. There's no place I've ever been where yoga hasn't fit itself in. I currently work on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska and I am still able to find time to lay my mat on the deck and practice what makes me the best me I can be, thanks to yoga. — Nelly

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political. — Nelly

The fashion world has been great. We started Apple Bottoms about seven years ago; it's interesting to be able to create something from your perspective, for your fans and support. It's a little different for me, because about 70% of my fans are females. — Nelly

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science. — Nelly Ben Hayoun

It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful. — Nelly Furtado

Winter is not here yet. There's a little flower, up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist. Will you clamber up and pluck it to show papa? — Emily Bronte

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. — Nelly Sachs

Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge. — Nelly Mazloum

In a girl's life, it's the father who establishes the pattern. — Nelly Alard

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring — Nelly Furtado

My ultimate goal and our ultimate goal is to be individuals, to sustain what we been able to sustain. — Nelly

I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice. — Nelly

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs. — Nelly

There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie. — Samuel Beckett

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm. — Nelly Mazloum

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being. — Nelly Mazloum