Raekwon Albums Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is hard because it's very subjective. I know the people that seem happiest to me, but whether they are actually - what they're really like inside is really hard to say. — Gretchen Rubin

Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable. — Michael McDowell

As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me. — Raekwon

give me the world
but for Christ's sake,
do not sugercoat it.
give me it raw
and gleaming with
truth.
i want the madness
to twirl me around until
i can no longer stand.
i refuse to be drunk
on a soft world.
the world is cruel,
my love,
you must understand
that,
but in that understanding
you must understand this,
too, just because it is cruel
does not mean it is not
beautiful. — Christopher Poindexter

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing. — Raekwon

Holmes," I cried, "this is impossible." "Admirable!" he said. "A most illuminating remark. It IS impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong. Yet you saw for yourself. Can you suggest any fallacy? — Arthur Conan Doyle

Difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books - great, big, fat ones - French and German as well as English - history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film. — Garry Marshall

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable. — Terri Clark

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. — George Iles

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them. — Alexander Chee

It is only given to women to see without being seen - men must act in the open, or not at all. — G. Willow Wilson

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic. — Alphonse De Lamartine

We need people who will go, and stay until the end. — Jackie Pullinger

Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any mountain I'd been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking above all else, something like a state of grace. — Jon Krakauer

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real. — Gillian Anderson