Illmatic Album Quotes & Sayings

There was no end to the evil schemes that a thought machine that oversized couldn't imagine and execute. — Kurt Vonnegut

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. — George H. W. Bush

Look at you sitting here with your legs spread and my cock so fucking deep I don't think I'll ever leave. Jesus, Addison. I thought you were perfect before. Now I fucking know it. — Ella Frank

Toying with this supervillain was kind of fun. Much better than my usual experience with them, which usually involved lots of blood and pain. I — Laura Thalassa

The state is not abolished, it withers away. — Friedrich Engels

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real. — Nas

'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back. — Nas

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best. — Simon Critchley

I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up. — Maika Monroe

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch. — Lord Chesterfield

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them. — Marcus Aurelius

Masculinity must prove itself, and do so before an audience. — Harvey Mansfield

During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted in their soul. — Michael Meade

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. — Gerry Mulligan

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him. — William James