Famous Quotes

Quotes by Nas

• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
• A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'
• Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.
• After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
• Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.
• As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
• As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
• Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
• But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.
• By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?
• Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.
• Equality implies individuality.
• Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
• Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.
• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
• Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
• How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
• How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
• However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.
• I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.
• I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
• I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
• I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.
• I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
• I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.
• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
• I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
• I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.
• I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.
• I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
• I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
• I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.
• I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.
• I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'