Sly Family Quotes

#1. I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

Beth Ditto

#2. I find myself wishing that I could work that magic for her. That I could bring the smile back to her face. But I slap at those thoughts as if they were mosquitoes. What am I doing, caring so much about my best friend's love? I deny my feelings for her because they shouldn't exist.

Amy Plum

#3. Don't you read or get read to?" The old man shakes his head with sharp sly triumph. "No, no. We have never been readers in our family. It don't pay. Stuff. Idleness. Folly. No, no!

Charles Dickens

#4. Boldness is a child of ignorance

Francis Bacon

#5. Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.

Ed Thigpen

#6. Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.

Andrew Evans

#7. I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

Robert Greene

#8. Young George spent more money on one day of his Inauguration Ceremonies than Richard Nixon did on his whole Campaign in 1972 - and Nixon was crucified as a Criminal Spendthrift with the ethics of a snake.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

Nadine Velazquez

#10. Meditation is a balancing act between attention and relaxation.

B. Alan Wallace

#11. Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

Anonymous

#13. But I still didn't let myself dwell on any of the good things, you know? It's the good things that'll drive you mad with missing them.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. It was heartbreaking, only Buck's heart was unbreakable.

Jack London

#15. Your afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if the find out you have one
- Natalie Savage Carlson " The Family Under The Bridge

Natalie Savage Carlson

#16. I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

Greg Saunier

#17. Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

Lactantius