Famous Hip Hop Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony. — Okky Madasari

It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs. — Aaron Johnson

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. — Edward Abbey

I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler. — Mary Matalin

It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections. — John Wesley

[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it. — Charles Edward Merriam

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I know I'm about to do something wrong. It just has to be the right wrong. — Matthew C. Funk

Daughters of the South were to their mothers what tributaries were to the main rivers they flowed into: their source of immovable strength. — Sarah Addison Allen

If you don't hate your darlings a little by the time they go to press, you haven't edited them enough. — S. Kelley Harrell

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film. — Brad Pitt

... though queens are a particular obsession of mine. I'm not speaking of European sovereigns, mind you, but that most glorious force of the chessboard. Did you know her square was originally occupied by a male "vizier," able to advance only one meager diagonal step per move? But during the reign of the great female monarchs, this piece metamorphosed into a "queen," and her power grew commensurate with her title. Only then did the game become something more - A mental odyssey that helped reshape the world. — Brian K. Vaughan

I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small. — John Battelle

I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching. — Lev L. Spiro

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking. — Mason Cooley