Top 775 Quotes & Sayings by Jamaican Authors - Page 3

I am not from a musical family.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.

I'm not gonna lie. I used to be in AOL chat rooms a lot causing trouble back when you had dial-up modems.

If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.

Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.

Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.

It's lovely to be recognized in your own country, but I feel that there's more.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.

You have to practice the life you want regardless of what the circumstances are.

A month before I booked 'This Is Us,' I was like, 'Maybe I should move to Montreal and work in a coffee shop.'

Wearing a giant, over-sized scarf will make you look deeply intelligent in almost any situation, but especially a book club.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

I feel like I haven't done the best in environments that aren't conducive to me doing well, and I have to do that. Because times are going to get tough, and I'm going to have to let things slide off my back.

It was a dream of Bob Marley and it is a dream of the family to bury him in Ethiopia.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

If I see someone with a gamer tag saying they're fans of the Bulls or the Heat I will trash-talk them and make it known I don't like them, but I don't let them know who I am. If I do, I have to change my gamer tag pretty fast.

The Irish want to smile, and they want to have fun.

Our people historically have gone through a lot. That is our story. You can trace it all the way back to slavery. But it is incumbent upon everyone, no matter what field, to make it easier on the next generation.

Like everyone, appearing smart during meetings is my top priority. Sometimes this can be difficult if you start daydreaming about your next vacation, your next nap, or bacon.

The Pacers were pretty up front in saying I have to go in a different direction.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

A master's is a lot more work than my first degree, but I'm an athlete who knows what she wants. I made up my mind, and I'm determined that this is what I'm going to do.

My fiancee and myself watch this show called 'The Good Wife.'

I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

It is always honour to captain the West Indies.

You can tell a lot about a woman by her email signature. Actually you can't but for some reason people do anyway.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.

I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

My favorite guy is Ben Schwartz. We've become really good friends.

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.

You always have to keep setting the bar for yourself.

I live in Kingston. When I tell people I live in Kingston, they start fearing for my life. People ask me if I have Internet in Jamaica. Like, seriously?

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

We might find someone one day to do what he was doing musically, but there is only one Bob. His spirit has spread across the world.

I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see the world... towns, cities, countries, I wanted to see them all.

But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

I think I get going because I try not to put added pressure on myself because a lot of times, you can be very good at what you do, but when you get ready, you have to be prepared to get it going.

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!'

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

Basketball is probably one of the best workouts you can possibly have, because it's cardiovascular and it's plyometrics.

The biggest thing I take away from the Army is that work ethic and being able to focus and put your eyes on a goal.

I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, 'Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,' made me sick.

Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he may even get to be the president of the United States.

Every once in a while you have to go out and treat your family and friends and stuff like that. Once every two months, I'd say, is when you do that. When you do it every weekend it gets a little excessive and the people around you start feeling like you have to do that every time you go out.

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.