"I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift."

-- R. Kelly

#Song Quotes #People Quotes #Long Quotes

“The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.”
“You win some, lose some, and wreck some.”
“Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.”
“Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.”
“Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson, Charles H. Wesley (2008). “The Story of the Negro Retold”, p.427, Wildside Press LLC
“You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from Aug 10, 2010
“Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up”
“What you call idiot points, I call awesome dollars. ~Seth”

Source : Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2010). “Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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