What is your favourite modern-day quote?

Question

I want one for my msn name

I am 16, so want one appropriate-from the modern day. No Shakespeare etc

Any ideas?

I like famous quotes e.g. i aint lookin down but i see no one above me by little wayne.

Preferbly no "funny" quotes

Instead, quotes about life, music etc :)

Answer 1

aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble be doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

-Mary Kay Ash

and also

"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."

-Andy Warhole

Answer 2

denial isn't just a river in Egypt

You think you fresh sh.t n.gga I'm ripe

How you gonna be my dog without no loyalty??

Answer 3

it loses it flair when cleaned up but "English, (bleep) do you speak it?"

Answer 4

the name I use on here is one of my favorite quotes.

It's in a Linkin park song.

"Everything falls apart, even the people who never frown eventually break down."

Answer 5

"I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am."

William Shatner

Answer 6

"Mind over matter, if you don't mind it doesn't matter" =)

Answer 7

"Dont eat too much chicken"

Answer 8

"Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat" - Morrissey/The Smiths

Answer 9

"it stops hurting when the pain goes away"-my mother

It's always too early to quit.-unknown

my fav. color is chocolate-a random person's shirt

AND MY FAV>

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -- Robert F. Kennedy

Answer 10

my favourite one is

"The day you were born

Everybody was happy,

You cried alone!

Make your life such

That in your last hour

All others are weeping

And you are the only one

Without a tear to shed!"

i dont know who it's by,

Answer 11

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that! I'm always gonna love you, no matter what. No matter what happens. You're my son, you're my blood. You're the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, you ain't gonna have a life.

Rocky Balboa

Answer 12

not sure how long of a quote you're looking for... and most of my favorites are by ralph waldo emerson... but i think they still apply

-"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

-"to be great is to be misunderstood"

Answer 13

War is not nice.

     -Barbara Bush

So true.

Answer 14

favorite song quote

" Maybe we've been living with our eyes half open, maybe we're bent and broken"

from the song meant to live by switchfoot

dance like no one is looking

live like there is no tommorow

love like it will never hurt

Answer 15

“Give a child a hammer and everything becomes a nail."

This quotation comes from Abraham Kaplan's Law of the Instrument and it is often mistakenly attributed to Mark Twain. It is mentioned in Donne Colton et. al vs. New York Hospital in 1976.

Answer 16

"I gotta roll the dice, never look back, and never think twice" - Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach

This quote always helps me when my friends and I want to do something stupid but none of us want to try it for fear of how much it will hurt, not if it will hurt.

Also "I don't know what I'm doing, all I know is I don't wanna stop" and "You're either in, or in the way" - both Ozzy Osbourne

The first quote applies to most of my life, and its keeps me going when idiots look at me strangely when I'm doing something that isn't 'normal'

The second quote helps me get over people who try to make my life a misery

Hope this helps :)