Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?
Ne-Yo
Quotes to Explore
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
Harold Coffin
I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
Katee Sackhoff
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
Gayle Forman
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
H. P. Lovecraft
Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.
Adam Smith
Si animus est aequus tibi, satis habes, qui bene vitam colas.
Plautus
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.
Mary Harris Jones
The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death.
J. R. R. Tolkien
I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.
Aidan Gillen
I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?
Ne-Yo
