Popular Hip Sayings

#1. Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.

Martin Heidegger

#2. I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.

Ice Cube

#3. I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

Philippa Gregory

#4. Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.

Marvin Sapp

#5. It was getting very difficult for me to keep from being excited in other places. Watching Abby own my brothers - and a poker veteran like my father - hand after hand was turning me on. I'd never seen a women so sexy in my life, and this one happened to be my girlfriend.

Jamie McGuire

#6. In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

Steve Albini

#7. Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

Jay-Z

#8. I reached deep in you and pulled out a cardinal which in bright red flew out the window.

Dorothea Lasky

#9. I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

Kevin McKidd

#10. Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

Ariel Rechtshaid

#11. I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

Steve Jobs

#12. I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Tom Petty

#13. Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#14. While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.

Bell Hooks

#15. Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.

Bill Drayton

#16. I love the idea of homeland, but not the actual return to one.

Rabih Alameddine

#17. Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Plutarch

#18. Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

Teju Cole

#19. I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into buying LPs. I followed the ascent of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder. I followed popular music very closely, and I've never stopped.

Simon De Pury

#20. I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I'm a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz - Glenn Fredly, Diah Lestari - so 80% jazz, 20% mixed with everything - disco, hip hop.

Joe Taslim

#21. I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

Angela Kinsey

#22. John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?

Gayle Forman

#23. Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.

Michael K. Williams

#25. It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

Aimee Bender