Amy Winehouse Quotes

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kind
  • Hollywood
  • Fail

• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Art
  • Small

• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Man

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• If I ever have downtime, I'm usually sitting in my place playing video games. Or eating sandwiches somewhere, or watching sports some place.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Sports
  • Eating
  • Video Games

• Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Dreams

• I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • New
  • Paid
  • Dues

• When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting my music everywhere. Pharrell was one of the producers who wanted to work with me, so I was really lucky to be one of those people who got to work with him.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of the Government, but in the Constitution of the United States.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Government
  • Constitution

• Zionist Israel's occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armaments, making it impossible for these newly independent Arab nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevate the living standard of their people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • Independent

• Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies, but a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Bad

• Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

  

  Larry Wall
  • Architecture

• But I came from a conservative Republican background.

  

  Christopher Meloni

• I think I present a different side of a male character: a side that is not John Wayne-like, a side that is, in fact, destructible. To some people, that is refreshing, and to other people, especially if they don't know me, it may be disturbing.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Kind

• A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Well
  • Fraud
  • Negligence

• The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World

• By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Job
  • Earth
  • Opportunity

• The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.

  

  David Souter

• I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

  

  Amy Winehouse