Strong Statement Quotes

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

You will!!

I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana, I mean one that just tears the ass out of them. You know, its a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish.

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

I eat liars for breakfast.

I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

I have no intentions of resigning.

The line cannot be too strongly drawn.

I like a good, strong statement. I walk out of movies all the time saying, 'That was terrible!' or 'That sucked!'

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I am an actress, period.

Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.

When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

I can't really believe that it's over. "I'll speak for her." Every face turns to where Sean Kendrick stands a little apart from the crowd, his arms crossed. "This island runs on courage, not blood," he says. His face is turned towards me, but his eyes are on Eaton and his groups. In the hush after he speaks, I can hear my heart thudding in my ears.

To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, 'Fuhgeddaboutit.'

I like my work to speak. Actually, I would like my work to scream!

I feel like when you make an album, it really has to hold its ground. It has to make a stamp.

I love wrestling. That's not going to change.

I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.

I wouldn't say even that I'm a broadly political person. But on occasion, I have felt that I have no choice but to paint something with a strong moral stance.

This is a big f...ing deal!

'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.