Abbey Lincoln Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
-
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
-
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
-
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
-
My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
-
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
-
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
-
The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
-
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
-
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
-
I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
-
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
-
'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
-
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
-
I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
-
But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
-
My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
-
Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
-
Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
-
It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
-
New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
-
I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.
-
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
-
You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.
