Embago Quotes & Sayings

I had throat cancer, and I had to have radiation treatments, and I couldn't sing for a long time; and this was in '97. I had 28 radiation treatments. I didn't die, thank God. — Levon Helm

The way we view the world, the ultimate barometer of quality is: if it gets shared, it's quality. — Emerson Spartz

I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you. — Chen Guangcheng

Our most successful leaders are people who put other people first ... in the long run, that's exactly what makes them successful. — Blake Roney

We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with new hearts, to be born again ... We need a nucleus of men in whom the Shakti is developed to its uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner of the personality and overflows to fertilise the earth. These, having the fire of Bhawani in their hearts and brains, will go forth and carry the flame to every nook and cranny of our land. — Sri Aurobindo

Most dads had hobbies that they passed down to their sons; hunting, fishing, auto repair. Dad's hobby was nuclear war, which meant his sons knew everything about it. — S.A. Bodeen

I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around. — GG Allin

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on. — Abraham Lincoln

It would be a hard life, but it would be theirs alone. Here at the world's edge, far from everything familiar and safe, they would build a new home in the wilderness and do it as partners. — Eowyn Ivey

It takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still. — Gene Stratton-Porter

I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep. — Wale

Did you hear that crazy man? we said.
Education is your mother? we said.
We laughed and did imitations. We thought Mr. Kondit, like more than a few of the men and boys who had crossed the desert to get to Ethiopia, had lost his mind along the way. — Dave Eggers

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different. — Dieter Rams

I know we differ in our religious opinions; but don't you give me credit for having some, though not the same as yours? — Elizabeth Gaskell

Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on? — Karl Pilkington