Rap quotes

“I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.” Jim Carrey

“I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.” Jim Carrey

“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.” Bob Dylan

“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.” Bob Dylan

“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.” Clint Eastwood

“The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.” Clint Eastwood

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” Helen Keller

“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.” Mick Jagger

“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.” Rudyard Kipling

“I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.” Rush Limbaugh

“We may define therapy as a search for value.” Abraham Maslow

“I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.” Barack Obama

“Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.” Barack Obama

“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.” Horace Mann

“America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.” James Madison

“I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.” Marilyn Manson

“Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.” Michelle Obama

“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.” Chuck Palahniuk

“People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.” Chuck Palahniuk

“All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.” Mitt Romney

“To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.” Ronald Reagan

“Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.” Ronald Reagan

“The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.” Ayn Rand

“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.” Ayn Rand

“There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.” Henry Rollins

“When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.” Henry Rollins