Nanie Empire Quotes & Sayings

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being. — Chuck D

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference. — Tom Bodett

Seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death — Brandon Scott Gorrell

What we want, we have for our pains
The promise that if we but wait
Till the want has burned out of our brains,
Every means shall be present to state;
While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold,
While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old,
When we've matched our buttons the pattern is sold,
And everything comes too late-too late. — Fitz Hugh Ludlow

How could I possibly keep my cool while getting sweaty with him? What if I screamed out something horrifying, like "I love you?" What if I had an epileptic attack and started drooling or spitting right in the middle of things? — Jeaniene Frost

I'm thankful for every moment. — Al Green

The first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone. — Jamaica Kincaid

He acted as solid as stone but when it comes to emotions, we're all made out of glass — Katie Kacvinsky

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. — L. Sprague De Camp

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master. — Francis Bacon

Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches. — Elise Blackwell

You are guarded. You don't show your cards to anyone. There are times that you're impossible to read. — Alexandra Bracken

I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it. — Zach Braff

This is the real warning of Nineteen Eighty-Four: The danger comes not from our suppressors but from our ovine willingness to be suppressed. — William Giraldi

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad. — Wynton Marsalis