Showing posts with label Personalities of the Past. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personalities of the Past. Show all posts

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Jimi Hendrix is one of the best entertainers ever so here are some of my favorite Jimi Hendrix Quotes:

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Oscar Wilde Quotes

From the series "Writer Quotes", my favorite Oscar Wilde Quotes:

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Billy Joel Quotes

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - The sinners are much more fun

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

Johnny Cash Quotes

Johnny Cash Quotes, a true personality:

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

So, I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain. I found that to be true in my life. You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Malcolm X Quotes

Curtesy of CelebreQuotes:

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Elvis Presley Quotes

Elvis Presley, the King of Rock'n'Roll:
  • “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.”
  • “When things go wrong don't go with them”
  • “Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.”
  • “I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.”
  • “Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside”
  • “Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one”
  • “Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!”
  • “Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.”
  • “Ah just act the way ah feel.”
  • “When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.”
  • “Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just shorta do'em all together, I guess.”

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Quotes by Volitaire


Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too

Common sense is not so common.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts

If Christians want us to believe in a Redeemer, let them act redeemed

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact

Men argue, nature acts

Friday, December 02, 2005

Albert Einstein Quotes


As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.