Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes

By the grace of God alone, I was able to still focus, when it was time for me to do my job, and I think I've done it pretty good, and I know I can buckle down even more.

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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Stillness

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Job
  • Desire
  • Artist

• I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Great
  • Love
  • Mum

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • May
  • New
  • Back

• I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Good
  • Crazy

• Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Morning

• I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Better
  • Movies

• There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Law

• Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.

  

  Nelsan Ellis

• I'm a huge salsa fan. I actually have a salsa on my album, 'Formula Vol. 2,' featuring Marc Anthony.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura

• If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.

  

  Angie Harmon

• Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Justice

• 'Community' is a great show. I love 'Raising Hope' with Martha Plimpton. And I love 'The Middle' - another Chicagoan in there is Neil Flynn, who used to play the janitor in 'Scrubs.'

  

  Jim O'Heir
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Community

• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Art
  • Lost

• Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Music

• As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wise
  • Destiny
  • Cruel

• I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • God
  • Know
  • Me

• I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

  

  Frances Burney

• Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Opinion
  • Impossible
  • Fact

• By the grace of God alone, I was able to still focus, when it was time for me to do my job, and I think I've done it pretty good, and I know I can buckle down even more.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Done
  • Focus
  • Jobs