Nipsey Russell Quotes

#1. Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the Lord comforts His people and will have compassion on His afflicted ones (Isa. 49:13).

Beth Moore

#2. I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

Grace Slick

#3. The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War',
and I'm beginning to think they're right.
For war costs millions of dollars a day,
and love
just a few bucks a night!

Nipsey Russell

#4. Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan.

James Gleick

#5. Believe it or not, kids, duct tape was not invented so you could make trashy little wallets and hideous handbags out of it. I

C.M. Stunich

#6. Writing [is] a form of prayer.

Franz Kafka

#7. My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!

Jill Scott

#8. If you owe too much on American Express,
and your Diner's Club notes are too hard,
take a loan on your Visa,
and pay it off with your MasterCard!

Nipsey Russell

#9. I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

Nipsey Russell

#10. I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

Mike Krzyzewski

#11. I hate foreplay, I want to get straight to the point. My favourite position is on top so I can take control.

Melissa Satta

#12. It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

Eminem

#13. At least you pay for them."
"I could support a foundling hospital, and you would applaud my virtue."
"I didn't expect you to populate your own orphanage," she said.

Eloisa James

#14. I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

Richard King

#15. The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

Sydney J. Harris

#16. I start with the joke line and write backward.

Nipsey Russell

#17. I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

Joan Didion

#18. We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

Ned Vizzini

#19. Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

Nipsey Russell

#20. I shouldn't be doing this, he thought. She is actually a nice person. for a moment he had an impulse to embrace her. He had a stronger impulse to beat her.

Mary Gaitskill