The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given...
AARON B. POWELL Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.
AARON B. POWELL If a responsible, mentally sound American wants to own and AR-15, that’s their right. Besides, whe...
AARON B. POWELL Corporate greed controls political will.
AARON B. POWELL As you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
pray that your journey be a long one,
filled wit...
BARRY B. POWELL The Greek gods had personalities like those of humans and struggled with one another for position an...
BARRY B. POWELL Carved on the temple [at Delphi] were the exhortations "Know yourself" and "Nothing too much," motto...
BARRY B. POWELL I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
COLIN POWELL My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight o...
COLIN POWELL Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as...
LUCY POWELL I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.
JONATHAN POWELL 'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
NATE POWELL Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.
NATE POWELL Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full...
NATE POWELL There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay ...
NATE POWELL My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and ...
NATE POWELL We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'l...
NATE POWELL The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings b...
NATE POWELL There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own...
NATE POWELL Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
NATE POWELL Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fanta...
NATE POWELL I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this w...
NATE POWELL I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway,...
NATE POWELL I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carr...
NATE POWELL The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', &#...
NATE POWELL As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between...
NATE POWELL My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the undergr...
NATE POWELL The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot ...
NATE POWELL I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, w...
COLIN POWELL In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for...
LUCY POWELL The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straig...
DAWN POWELL No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far...
EDGAR POWELL I want everybody to be scared to death of us. I don't say that in a bellicose way. I say that in a w...
COLIN POWELL The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
JOHN POWELL The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
ENOCH POWELL The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have...
COLIN POWELL Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vi...
COLIN POWELL We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this count...
COLIN POWELL Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your...
COLIN POWELL It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
COLIN POWELL Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
COLIN POWELL Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard...
COLIN POWELL In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
POWELL CLAYTON Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
ANTHONY POWELL The BBG may want to start numerous new broadcast services, or revive VOA (Voice of America) services...
ADAM POWELL Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
ADAM POWELL In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
ADAM POWELL Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
ADAM POWELL Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, th...
ADAM POWELL Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.
ROBERT POWELL Either move or be moved.
COLIN POWELL Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field ...
COLIN POWELL 90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
COLIN POWELL Get mad, then get over it.
COLIN POWELL Experts often possess more data than judgment.
COLIN POWELL To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
JOHN POWELL Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of...
ANTHONY POWELL Self-love seems so often unrequited.
ANTHONY POWELL But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean l...
COLIN POWELL Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came int...
ANTHONY POWELL Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
COLIN POWELL Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process i...
ANTHONY POWELL Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take...
E.P. POWELL He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained fai...
ANTHONY POWELL Communication works for those who work at it.
JOHN POWELL By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world t...
JOHN POWELL Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
COLIN POWELL Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
COLIN POWELL Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories o...
COLIN POWELL What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
JOHN POWELL There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...
COLIN POWELL Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
COLIN POWELL We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that wou...
COLIN POWELL Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousan...
WILLIAM POWELL Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approac...
COLIN POWELL Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
COLIN POWELL A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...
COLIN POWELL Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that ou...
JONATHAN POWELL Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used...
LUCY POWELL In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade e...
LUCY POWELL The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, ...
COLIN POWELL It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a p...
COLIN POWELL Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they ...
DAWN POWELL I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winni...
COLIN POWELL When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be ...
COLIN POWELL But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you&#...
COLIN POWELL In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.
ROBERT POWELL In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a no...
COLIN POWELL If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity wit...
COLIN POWELL Our smallest amount of miles in one day is 33 miles. And then, our largest is 105. I'm really scared...
BECKY POWELL And I have this at my grasp, and I have to take advantage of it.
BECKY POWELL And they were all excited and they were going to do it. But then, none of them did it. Just me doing...
BECKY POWELL We really weren't that encouraged. Everybody had dead faces before the game.
BECKY POWELL I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massi...
JONATHAN POWELL There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the...
COLIN POWELL Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But y...
COLIN POWELL In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the ...
LUCY POWELL I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the w...
JONATHAN POWELL You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda....
COLIN POWELL Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and ...
LUCY POWELL We're still in the crisis stage, ... Once we're past search and rescue and things calm down, we'll c...
ANN POWELL I've just been overwhelmed by the outpouring of people who want to help our arts organizations and a...
ANN POWELL