Quotes About Staples

#1. never use a halogen light bulb, as it could start a fire. - Author: Jonny Staples

#2. Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family. - Author: Mavis Staples

#3. Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it. - Author: Vince Staples

#4. I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted. - Author: Davey Havok

#5. When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit. - Author: Mavis Staples

#6. As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact. - Author: Monique Coleman

#7. Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples. - Author: Graham Chapman

#8. I just had a wonderful life, and I couldn't ask for anything else. - Author: Mavis Staples

#9. David Nelson says that one of the staples of his diet during this era was ketchup sandwiches - Author: Blair Jackson

#10. In old stapled problems, you can see the TB vaccine marks in the upper left corner where the staples have been removed and replaced, as the problem - even the staple holes of the problem - was copied and sent on to other departments for further action, copying, and stapling. - Author: Nicholson Baker

#11. One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing. - Author: Mavis Staples

#12. I would for sure do a thousand dollar meet and greet because literally every single person knows where I live. - Author: Vince Staples

#13. We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects. - Author: Serge Schmemann

#14. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4. - Author: Ruth Ozeki

#15. Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops. - Author: Mavis Staples

#16. The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen. - Author: Vince Staples

#17. My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir. - Author: Mavis Staples

#18. I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement. - Author: Mavis Staples

#19. If you hit a kangaroo in the street and you have to pull out on the side of the road, it can get back up and murder you. - Author: Vince Staples

#20. If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about? - Author: Mavis Staples

#21. The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill. - Author: Mavis Staples

#22. The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work. - Author: Vince Staples

#23. If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing. - Author: Vince Staples

#24. Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players. - Author: Brittany Howard

#25. High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail. - Author: Chicken John

#26. We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on. - Author: Mavis Staples

#27. Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I'm going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized. - Author: Mavis Staples

#28. I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that. - Author: Mavis Staples

#29. The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape. - Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

#30. Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy. - Author: Mavis Staples

#31. My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues. - Author: Mavis Staples

#32. Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people. - Author: Vince Staples

#33. Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York could thereby monopolise the staples of the Southern States and reduce their value. - Author: George Mason

#34. My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters 'cuz I couldn't hit them back, so I had to find specific severe ways to punish them. - Author: Vince Staples

#35. I'm so aware when you make a film, there are so many elements to get right. So many people with such important jobs. You know, it's terrible. I walk away from a film going, "The cinematography was great, wasn't it? But the music wasn't so good. The casting wasn't great." - Author: Stuart A. Staples

#36. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. - Author: William Shakespeare

#37. I brought my daughters actually to Staples Center to watch me live in the ring - to watch their mother compete in the ring. It was a very proud moment for me. - Author: Stephanie McMahon

#38. I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is - I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower. - Author: Vince Staples

#39. Whenever someone comes up to me and says, 'I'm having trouble shopping.' I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody. - Author: Lauren Conrad

#40. I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition. - Author: Eric Stoltz

#41. Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be. - Author: Vince Staples

#42. The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich. - Author: Vince Staples

#43. I usually build my collections on colors and on staples, so when you buy pieces, you are really adding to your wardrobe, and you're getting a new color palette to play with. The clothes are timeless and modern at the same time. - Author: L'Wren Scott

#44. I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop. - Author: Vince Staples

#45. It really hurts my feelings when people are mean to old people, or when people yell at their little kids. Just ask them what's wrong, bro. I think we all just need to be nicer. - Author: Vince Staples

#46. What's important to me is people just being people. - Author: Vince Staples

#47. Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work. - Author: Kobe Bryant

#48. As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day. - Author: Natasha Lyonne

#49. You'll never get anything done by sitting on your hands or by wringing them. Try getting them dirty for a change and you'll be surprised by how much you can accomplish. - Author: Belva Rae Staples

#50. There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy. - Author: Mavis Staples

#51. I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge. - Author: Mavis Staples

#52. A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist. - Author: Desiderius Erasmus

#53. I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King. - Author: Mavis Staples

#54. I have fun just about everywhere I go. - Author: Mavis Staples

#55. I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see. - Author: Vince Staples

#56. You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork. - Author: Al Yankovic

#57. I'm just singing what I feel in my heart. - Author: Mavis Staples

#58. Sprite really does taste different everywhere! That's like a fact. Because of certain regulations, you can only put so many sugars ... - Author: Vince Staples

#59. Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals. - Author: Vince Staples

#60. You can please some of the people some of the time, others you can please once in a while and still others you can't please any of the time, but if you only strive to please yourself all of the time, you have and are a problem. - Author: Belva Rae Staples

#61. After becoming pregnant, I had to makeover my pantry just a little to make the proper adjustments to support the baby. I've found some staples that will stick around after the baby is here, too. - Author: Holly Madison

#62. I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans. - Author: Mavis Staples

#63. Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people." - Author: Vince Staples

#64. One of the staples of discussion about basic aesthetic principles is that art has to exist for its own self and cannot be prostituted to advance any particular cause or point of view. Perfect nonsense, of course, but that doesn't keep it from being repeated ad nauseam. - Author: Douglas Wilson

#65. At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good. - Author: Vince Staples

#66. I used to work for the Clippers - I sold tickets - so I was in the Staples Center all the time. I'm a big Clippers fan. - Author: Charles Michael Davis

#67. Humor and Health,
The staples of wealth. - Author: S Austin

#68. I never dreamed that I would hear 10,000 people screaming when I stepped out onto a stage. Well, that's not entirely true. I dreamed about it but in a performing-on-the-stage-at-Staples-Center-or-Madison-Square-Garden context. But never in a I'm-in-a-movie-that-hasn't-even-come-out-yet one. - Author: Jacqueline Emerson

#69. Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle. - Author: Tim Gunn

#70. I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock. - Author: Mavis Staples

#71. I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion. - Author: Vince Staples

#72. I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out. - Author: Mavis Staples

#73. Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music. - Author: Vince Staples

#74. We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel. - Author: Mavis Staples

#75. There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them. - Author: Mavis Staples

#76. Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot. - Author: Vince Staples

#77. My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you. - Author: Mavis Staples

#78. Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world. - Author: Auguste Escoffier

#79. He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime. - Author: Philip Zaleski

#80. I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it. - Author: C.S. Lewis

#81. It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have these musical friends from all walks of life. - Author: Mavis Staples

#82. Care and pity are two different things. - Author: Vince Staples

#83. Most of us cannot afford to store a year's supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency. - Author: James E. Faust

#84. Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic. - Author: Paul Feig

#85. I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying. - Author: Mavis Staples

#86. Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever. - Author: Vince Staples

#87. I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks. - Author: Vince Staples

#88. I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century. - Author: Lemony Snicket

#89. I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices. - Author: Mavis Staples

#90. I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician. - Author: Vince Staples

#91. It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore! - Author: Vince Staples

#92. My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet. - Author: Vince Staples

#93. If something doesn't start out right, it won't end up right. - Author: J.J. Staples

#94. So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations. - Author: Vince Staples

#95. The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all ... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life. - Author: Graham Hill

#96. I write the book for one person - for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it. - Author: Brian K. Vaughan

#97. BECAUSE CATHOLICISM IS TRUE, The papacy was established by Christ, has endured, and retains the authority entrusted to it by Christ, even to this day. - Author: Tim Staples

#98. You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across. - Author: Vince Staples

#99. I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense. - Author: Charlaine Harris

#100. Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better. - Author: Vince Staples