Quotes About Author

Right pain is not only constructive but also exhilarating and involves challenge, while wrong pain is destructive and causes excruciating suffering.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Not unseated, Not even touched By the shocks of sickness, Gods stand worlds from men.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.

Notwithstanding, for the more public part of government, which is laws, I think good to note only one deficiency; which is, that all those which have written of laws have written either as philosophers or as lawyers, and none as statesmen.

Do not wonder, if the common people speak more truly than those of high rank; for they speak with more safety.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

Wit is part of the machinery of the intellect.

The old pagan has a sympathy with the religion of enthusiasm far above the reach of the modern Epicurean.

The conspicuous dignity awakens the sentiment of reverence, and men, often very undignified, seize the occasion to govern by means of it.

Rangers are a huge club with ambition and I know this is the right fit for me to progress my career.

My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.

Some guy was just like, 'You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun,' and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.

I originally got my name after a gun because the way I rap; a gangster gave me the name in 1988.

I tried gimmicky stuff 'cause I wanted to get some attention, and remember, you know, in the rap world Seattle was a cave. There was no light.

N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.

Out of every other rap guy, Wiz is the most humble, down-to-earth guy, like me.

One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.

I was doing jokey rap stuff in high school. But it was never serious. It was always, like, 'It'd be cool to do this as a form of comedy.'

I love rap, and I love the angst of hardcore music and punk rock.

The godfather of rap, that is what I am known as, and the king of party records, the records I do.

I don't listen to much rap outside of Run DMC and the Beasties, but then I'm pretty burned out on most new music.