Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

Via social media, I reached out, asking about relationships, dreams, hopes, fears, the whole gambit, and the stories that really resonated with me, I wrote songs about.

Ne-Yo

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Life
  • Time
  • Respect

• I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Fun
  • You
  • Know

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

  

  Iman
  • House
  • Early
  • Press

• Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Song
  • My Life

• Writing is the beast unto itself.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Writing
  • Beast
  • Unto

• Sixty slutz all of them dying from asphyxia/after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippie cup

  

  Eminem
  • Dying

• An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

  

  Lawyer

• The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • People
  • Famous

• Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked.And death was observed with sudden cries,And birth with laughter and pain.And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skiesAnd night came down again.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Death
  • Night
  • Pain

• You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like 'As Confucius say,' but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don’t understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs…) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail than women who fail.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I had a recurring stress dream since I was a kid 10 years old. My friend Travis is driving, and I'm afraid we're going to get in trouble. We keep passing people I recognize, and no one is doing anything. Travis keeps driving faster. I've had that dream a long time.

  

  Jon Watts
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things,yet keeping fineness of character and nobility of manner together with an everlasting heart full of love.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Character
  • Power
  • Inharmonious influences

• Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one of those games involves popular offerings.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Popular

• If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Rest
  • Taken
  • Needs

• Via social media, I reached out, asking about relationships, dreams, hopes, fears, the whole gambit, and the stories that really resonated with me, I wrote songs about.

  

  Ne-Yo