Leyonce Quotes & Sayings

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. — Charles Dickens

Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times - although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we
make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last blockon a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life. — Olivier Theyskens

Imagination, like reality, has its limits. — Tim O'Brien

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. — Linus Torvalds

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree. — Lara Stone

I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations. — Yannis Philippakis

If I had kids, my kids would hate me ... They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something in my life would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them. — Oprah Winfrey

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. — Lillian Hellman

You can fit two United States and maybe a third one into the entire continent of Africa, but on a map we make the entire continent of Africa look like the size of the United States, which is why a lot of people don't know that Africa is a continent. They think it's a country because it looks as big as we do. — Baron Vaughn

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient. — Josh Billings

All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing. — Patti Scialfa