Torrential Tribute Quotes & Sayings

The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live! — Paul Valery

I'm in show business ... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson. — Chris Rock

The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame. — Luc De Clapiers

I let them [Kanye and Pharrell] be them; they let me be me. I'm just a little boy that does poetry whose friends got famous, and I like it that way. I like to be found. I don't want to be overexposed. I love when people discover me and discover my music. — Malik Yusef

Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.' — Alain Wertheimer

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay — Robert B. Reich

The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side. — Matthew Henry

Finally life becomes a very specific thing
and that's what we are. Ultimately, looking back, I'm beginning to believe that we need to always be fucked up. We need to always have some reason to hate ourselves, something to make us feel eternally incomplete. — Arthur Nersesian

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another. — Corita Kent

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration. — George R R Martin

This was a far cry from the meritocratic Ottoman period, when only by dint of an education could a man of humble background hope to rise through the ranks, get rich, and become a pasha. — Orhan Pamuk

They spent the rest of that afternoon together. Maybe he felt guilty for giving Quentin the cigarette, or maybe Eliot had decided that the tedium of solitude was ever so slightly greater than the tedium of Quentin's company. Maybe he just needed a straight man. He — Lev Grossman

two children of her own, and about to head into the unknown world of '40', writing is her new passion. — L. Calell

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses. — Rufus Wainwright