Jamil Quotes

#1. My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.

H. Rap Brown

#2. I never wanted other women... I left so that I could be a man for you. So I could come back for you

Penelope Douglas

#3. Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.

Tom DeLonge

#5. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

Napoleon Hill

#6. I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

George R R Martin

#7. ...One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our people shall live because there are only a few among us who do not love raw onions.

Jamil Ahmad

#8. I don't really tell a joke per se, I build up an attitude and it becomes a joke.

Don Rickles

#9. Hope does not die like an animal--quick and sudden. It is more like a plant, which slowly withers away.

Jamil Ahmad

#10. You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls.

Emo Philips

#11. If America don't come around, we're gonna burn it down.

Jamil Al-Amin

#12. I would like to thank Julius Caesar for originating my hairstyle

Kanye West

#13. Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

Harvey Milk

#14. There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.

Erica Schroeder

#15. Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That is just what I do; I ask Him that at every line He would give me not merely thoughts and power, but also every word, even the very rhymes.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#16. I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

Britney Spears

#17. But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can't help people eat cereal any longer.

Rivka Galchen

#18. All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

Ninette De Valois