Muhammad Ali Quotes

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

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• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Better
  • Horse
  • Genius

• But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Free
  • Enjoy
  • Exercise

• As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,' 'Billy Budd,' 'Peter Grimes,' 'The Crucible,' 'Lost in the Stars,' 'The Marriage of Figaro,' 'The Makropulos Case' and Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Around 1810, the theme of justice emerged in opera.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Lost
  • Justice
  • Marriage

• There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Different
  • Country

• I ain't a killer, but don't push me Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Joy
  • Revenge
  • Killer

• The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from us.

  

  Albert Camus
  • World
  • Habit
  • Distance

• As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Time
  • Great
  • Character

• There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Pretty

• I never went to my high school dance, and didn't date much.

  

  Kerri Strug
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• I am not so naive to think that I can make every problem in the health service go away. No minister can. And never will be able to.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Health
  • Service

• The most passionate fans are from India, and I hope that I can motivate more Indians to pursue wrestling - or any athletics, for that matter - and become champions.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Hope
  • Wrestling

• Cinema is a world of imagination.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • World
  • Imagination

• My goal is definitely to direct features - action movies, that's my favorite genre. So I would love to do the 'Halo' movie.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Movie
  • Action

• More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

  

  John Irving
  • Life

• A world championship medal on the road is something that I'm missing from my CV.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • World
  • Road
  • Missing

• I have never believed that the historian should seek to perpetuate the misapprehensions of the past, and it is true that we understand Beethoven today better than his contemporaries did, better, above all, than the generation that immediately followed him, including his own most important pupil, Karl Czerny.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Important
  • True
  • Today

• Then I'm over the fucking top and you owe me a Cadillac. And I don't want any fucking shit and I don't give a shit.

  

  David Mamet

• We pop out at your party, I'm with the gang And it's gon' be a robbery, so tuck ya chain I'm a killer, girl, I'm sorry, but I can't change We ain't aimin' for your body, shots hit your brain

  

  Polo G
  • Brain
  • Gang
  • Pop

• I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Done
  • Never
  • Box

• The politician is...trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Art
  • May
  • Words

• I am addicted to any facial product that's anti-aging.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Products
  • Aging
  • Facial

• There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Killing
  • Bunch

• It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Killer
  • Gorilla
  • Chiller