Embaixo D Quotes & Sayings

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both. — Jessica Sanchez

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life. — Cecil Rhodes

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison. — Erykah Badu

It's having hope which requires having guts. So wear your heart on your sleeve and if it bleeds, let it, so long as it still beats. — Juhani Aho

When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be. — Iyanla Vanzant

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance. — Louis MacNeice

I have made love to ten thousand women. — Georges Simenon

He had the aloofness of manner you often find in those who have lived much alone in unfrequented places ... they seem always to hold something back. They have a life in themselves that they keep apart ... this hidden life is the only one that signifies to them. And no and then their eyes betray the weariness with the social round into which hazard or the fear of seeming odd has for a moment forced them. They seem then to long for the monotonous solitude of some place of their predilection where they can be once more alone with the reality they have found. — W. Somerset Maugham

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool. — Jay-Z

It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy. — Craig Ferguson

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs. — Robert Jordan

Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not galloping past your window on the way to the latest anything. They're living their lives. You do a play, they come and see it and say, 'That's nice', and then they go home. — Mike Nichols

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. — Kim Stanley Robinson

How improbable must a coincidence be before it's a sign? — David Mitchell

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings. — Rachel Joyce