Top 100 Nelly's Quotes
#1. Nelly's father was rich. Her mother was fabulous. She was reckless.
Dora Okeyo
#2. Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.
Nelly Mazloum
#3. If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?
Nelly
#4. I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.
Nelly
#6. Winter is not here yet. There's a little flower, up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist. Will you clamber up and pluck it to show papa?
Emily Bronte
#7. People are beginning to realise," the doorman of the Stonewall Inn observed a few days after the riot, "that no matter how 'nelly' or how 'fem' a homosexual is, you can only push them so far.
Ann Bausum
#9. We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.
Nelly Sachs
#10. Your own destiny, create your own recipe.
Nelly
#11. I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.
Nelly Furtado
#12. I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don't you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly, but why don't you play J-Live? I want to open up the door to how it was back in the day.
DJ Jazzy Jeff
#13. Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.
Nelly
#14. I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
Nelly
#15. Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.
Nelly
#16. I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.
Nelly
#17. I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.
Nelly
#18. The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.
Nelly Ben Hayoun
#19. You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.
Nelly
#21. In Dance and Music, Silence swims to reach our soul.
Nelly Mazloum
#22. Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you kidding me? Sweat and Suit? I broke history, I was the first rapper to have 1st and 2nd album at the same time ever on billboard.
Nelly
#23. I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.
Nelly
#25. I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
Fergie
#26. How many people out there really set a budget?
Nelly
#28. I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.
LaToya Jackson
#29. My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.
Nelly
#30. Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
Nelly
#31. The fashion world has been great. We started Apple Bottoms about seven years ago; it's interesting to be able to create something from your perspective, for your fans and support. It's a little different for me, because about 70% of my fans are females.
Nelly
#32. As you become a legend in the game, you build more doubters than you build supporters. And that's fine. I think that comes with anything that's challenging. I think it even comes with sports. The older that Michael Jordan got, I think the more doubted he became.
Nelly
#33. I think he's going down, ... It's gonna be the 'Revenge for O.J. '
Nelly
#34. Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.
Nelly
#35. Your hater is your future fan in a way. Cause when it's different they don't really take to it at first, but after you look back on it you get a chance to reflect on it.
Nelly
#37. Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.
Nelly
#38. I listen to Jay-Z, Nelly, Nas, Ludacris and all the young kids out there. I listen to them, and I have mad respect for them.
Stephanie Mills
#39. Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.
Nelly Furtado
#40. When sleep enters the body like smoke
and man journeys into the abyss
like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere,
then all quarrel ceases,
overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip
of its rider.
Nelly Sachs
#41. Get smart, work hard and remain truthful to those who have taught you something to better love and serve your dancing.
Nelly Mazloum
#42. I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.
Nelly Furtado
#43. I like my body so much more now since having my baby.
Nelly Furtado
#44. Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.
Nelly
#45. Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.
Nelly Kaplan
#46. Smoke that herb and clear your mind.
Nelly
#47. Rappers make what's in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull.
Nelly
#48. I stand for the Midwest. That's why the album's titled 'M.O.,' 'cause I'm still holding it down like that. My friends and family all call me Mo, so it's kind of like really representing where I'm from and me at the same time.
Nelly
#49. Guys don't really care, they just want to get the clothes off.
Nelly Furtado
#50. Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?
Nelly
#51. Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.
Nelly Mazloum
#52. My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.
Nelly
#53. Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life.
Nelly
#54. You always get that energy, you just want to be heard, to go out, do your thing and show people that we have just as much talent here as everywhere else.
Nelly
#55. So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.
Nelly
#56. When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew ...
Nelly Sachs
#57. I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.
Nelly
#58. Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.
Nelly Ben Hayoun
#59. I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.
Nelly Furtado
#60. Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.
Claire Tomalin
#61. You think you had it bad when somebody put out a rumor on you in the school; think about somebody putting a rumor out about you on the Internet.
Nelly
#62. I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.
Nelly
#63. We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.
Nelly Mazloum
#64. How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.
Gayle King
#65. Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.
Nelly Mazloum
#66. I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.
Nelly Furtado
#67. World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire
Nelly Sachs
#68. If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.
Nelly Furtado
#69. My nickname used to be Moses - still is Moses - for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.
Nelly
#70. In a girl's life, it's the father who establishes the pattern.
Nelly Alard
#71. I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill.
Nelly Ben Hayoun
#73. A great body is a gift you give yourself
Nelly
#74. I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.
Nelly
#75. Maneater
make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.
Nelly Furtado
#76. Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.
Nelly Mazloum
#77. We understand each other, Nelly. We've both lost someone we love. We both have scars and regrets and anger. We can do this together.
Jasinda Wilder
#78. Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.
Nelly Sachs
#79. Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.
Heather Brewer
#80. I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.
Nelly Furtado
#81. Righteous willin, the only thing supreme swimmin'.
Nelly
#82. We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
Nelly Sachs
#83. Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.
Nelly Mazloum
#84. Touring is a favorite part of what I do. I love connecting with the fans in that immediate way
Nelly Furtado
#85. I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.
Nelly Furtado
#87. I also love Dido and Nelly Furtado and people who are really into their music like that. And I love Renee Zellweger.
Hilary Duff
#88. I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that?
Nelly
#89. He [Timbaland] meshes well with a lot of great people, like he meshes well with Timberlake, Missy Elliott, Nelly Furtado. I'm hoping I'm another one that he meshes well with, because it could be really genius.
Justin Bieber
#90. I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.
Antonio Davis
#91. Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.
Nelly Furtado
#92. I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.
Nelly Furtado
#93. I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.
Nelly
#94. If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable."
"Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.
Emily Bronte
#95. I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.
Nelly Ben Hayoun
#96. It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.
Nelly Furtado
#97. To get the Nickelodeon award? That's like 'it.' It's one of the best. It's definitely where you want to be in your career.
Nelly
#98. Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring
Nelly Furtado
#99. There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.
Samuel Beckett
#100. I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.
Nelly
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