Pearl Bailey Quotes

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

Pearl Bailey

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• I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Life
  • World
  • Puzzle

• I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Think
  • Risk

• I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Friends
  • Possible

• The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Up
  • God
  • Eye

• My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Enemy
  • Look

• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Like

• I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Thought
  • Will
  • Anybody

• To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• 'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Celebration

• The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Dream
  • Freedom

• I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Process
  • Strive

• The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Done
  • Own
  • Funeral

• All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Men
  • Character
  • America

• If she undervalue me,What care I how fair she be?

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • She

• And we shared the story of Korean War veteran Dick Shank, who made it home to that baby boy, and lived out his life - at 84 years old, he was still roller skating - because no war should ever be forgotten and no veteran should ever be overlooked.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Home
  • War

• 'Hello Rabbit, is that you?''Let's pretend it isn't', said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • World
  • Alone
  • Wishes

• My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Food
  • Health
  • Baby

• This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

  

  Aneurin Bevan
  • Time

• If vital interests under duress can be preserved by peaceful means, negotiations will find that out. If our adversary will accept nothing-less than a concession of our rights, negotiations will find that out. And if negotiations are to take place, this nation cannot abdicate to its adversaries the task of choosing the forum and the framework and the time.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Time

• I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Writing
  • Lyric

• When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

  

  Pearl Bailey