Pharoah Quotes

#1. What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

Saint Augustine

#2. I'm guilty of being fascinated by gadgets and toys and technology, but any penny that I spend, I try to make it be a part of what I do for a living. Because then you are forwarding. You are forwarding that art, forwarding that career ahead.

Jeff Dunham

#3. I had a twin, and he didn't make it.

Jay Pharoah

#4. I'm known for impressions and family stories.

Jay Pharoah

#5. There is only one love story: Boy meets girl, Girl gets boy into pickle, Boy gets pickle into girl.

Jack Woodford

#6. I'm a chocolate guy.

Jay Pharoah

#7. Very few people are blessed enough to call their father a legend, and an even smaller number are able to share that notion with the rest of the world.

Cassidy Gifford

#8. No, no, Mr. Dade, this is my ride now. I make the rules.

Kyra Davis

#9. In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

Jay Pharoah

#10. There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

Johan Huizinga

#11. As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.

Jay Pharoah

#12. I just want a band and keep them working, people that I like and who I think a lot of. Once my band is happy, then I am happy.

Pharoah Sanders

#13. My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn't it?

Sylvester Stallone

#14. But there was a saying in Hebrew, "We survived Pharoah, we'll survive this too." In the words of the old joke, it was the theme of every Jewish holiday: they tried to kill us, they failed, so let's eat!

John Connolly

#15. I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word.

Pharoah Sanders

#16. It is by your own that you have to learn a lesson and they by themselves so that they will blame you not.

Auliq Ice

#17. Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

Albert Ayler

#18. Pop music has progressed.

Morrissey

#19. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. --John Woods comp.lang.c++

Jeff Knupp

#20. He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and that was it. You were on your own. You had to be very independent being around John [Coltrane].

Pharoah Sanders

#21. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

Benjamin Franklin

#22. I have not heard from President Barack. I've never gotten a phone call.

Jay Pharoah

#23. David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.

Louis Susman

#24. I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

Pharoah Sanders

#25. The stars folded themselves away as the sun peeked above the horizon and cracked open the sky and I kissed him and we laughed and it was good.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#26. Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#27. Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

Jessica Chastain

#28. For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

Idries Shah

#29. [John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play.

Pharoah Sanders