Lely Quotes & Sayings

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else. — Claude Brown

Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle — Jodi Picoult

In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover. — Sir Mix-a-Lot

It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history - and from now on there will be two distinct historical cultures running side by side without ever really fusing - that people who have been brought up on the conventional version of history and know all about the Robespierrist Terror during the Great French Revolution, should find it an unfamiliar fact that the Terror of the government of Thiers executed, imprisoned or exiled more people - the number has been estimated at a hundred thousand - in that one week of the suppression of the [Paris] Commune [of 1871] than the revolutionary Terror of Robespierre had done in three years. — Edmund Wilson

She couldn't send Billy out for ice cream or strawberries, since the atmosphere outside the dome was cyanide, and the nearest strawberries and ice cream were millions of light years away. — Kurt Vonnegut

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless. — Douglas Adams

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Maybe that was why I wanted to slap so many of the zombies; they had no idea how freaking lucky they were. Lucky and ignorant, happy little rich kids who believed in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and thought that life was supposed to be fair. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. — Oliver Cromwell

Inspiration is born when our passion becomes greater than our fear. — Terri Frey Maxwell

No, I don't go to that restaurant anymore. No body goes there. It's too crowded. — Yogi Berra

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it. — David Ortiz