Nelson Quotes · Page 2

You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are…

— Melissa Febos

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his…

— Paul Rudd

I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.

— Kinky Friedman

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

— Mark Bernstein

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

— Kumi Naidoo

What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down…

— Idris Elba

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere…

— Henry Rollins

That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have…

— Nelson Mandela

Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being…

— Argus Hamilton

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different…

— Charley Pride

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

— David Cameron

Cause Jesus I do think did exist, and he was, I think, a guy who had interesting ideas in the Gandhi-type area,…

— Eddie Izzard

We learn that Comrade [President of South Africa Nelson] Mandela has announced in a speech that he hopes for a bright future…

— Jeff Cooper

Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?

— Sandra Cisneros

I think one of the beauties so far of the so-called Spirit of Seattle is there aren't any leaders, pop stars, or…

— Jello Biafra

I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be…

— Gary Allan

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

— Kumi Naidoo

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on…

— Anonymous

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a…

— Nina Simone

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

— Lawrence Durrell

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson…

— Dennis C. Blair

Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing…

— Kumi Naidoo

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the…

— Scilla Elworthy

Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody.…

— Van Jones

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great…

— Rory Bremner