Isaac Hayes Quotes

All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

Isaac Hayes

Quotes to Explore

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

Mallory Ortberg
- Ideas
- Write
- More
To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

Yaya Toure
I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

J. D. Vance
- Kind
- Thought
- Competition
I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

Eric Lynn Wright
- Good
- Different
- Children
My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

W. H. Davies
- House
- Sea
- Grandfather
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

Barbara Jordan