Welcome to our collection of sample quotes! Words have a remarkable ability to inspire, motivate, and provoke thought. From renowned thinkers to everyday individuals, the power of a well-crafted phrase can resonate deeply within us, offering insight, encouragement, and sometimes even solace. Whether you seek words of wisdom, humor, or encouragement, you’ll find a diverse array of quotes curated here to spark your imagination and stir your soul.
In this compilation, you’ll encounter a tapestry of perspectives spanning various topics, from love and friendship to perseverance and success. Each quote encapsulates a unique perspective, reflecting the richness of human experience and the depth of our emotions. Whether you’re seeking inspiration for a project, looking to uplift your spirits, or simply enjoy the beauty of language, these sample quotes offer something for everyone. Explore, ponder, and find the words that resonate with you, for in them, you may discover new insights and a renewed sense of purpose.
Now, without further ado, delve into our collection of sample quotes below. Feel free to use them as inspiration for your projects, share them with friends, or adorn them on images to enhance their impact. Let the wisdom and beauty of these words enrich your journey through life.
A building is a very interesting frame. You always get a sort of sample of different people inside a building. Hito Steyerl
I come from the school of hip-hop where you just buy records and sample records all the time. Doing that is tough sometimes, because if you get a placement on a major record, your record could get shelved because of clearance issues. Frank Dukes
With comedic actors, you can write one joke or two jokes, sample dialogue, and they have the capacity to extrapolate. Sam Seder
I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample. Janice Dickinson
Most entrepreneurs don’t need as many customers as they think. A lot of people think 10 is too few for a sample. But if all 10 refused a product, why is that not enough? If you want 100, 1,000 or a million customers, you first have to get 10. Eric Ries
When you use a sample in a big way, when you loop something in the way I did with ‘Runaround Sue,’ it’s like you have your chords and your melody and the quality of the song right there before you add your own production. It’s like the song is already made, in a sense. G-Eazy
Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health. Joel Robuchon
I felt like the sample size was right, and my body was wrong. I basically ended up going into battle with my body, and that’s a daily battle every time you look in the mirror. Every time you see an image of a successful model or someone who you look up to who doesn’t look like you, you think you’re not good enough. Iskra Lawrence
I’m a sample of Jesus. I’m a super being. Benny Hinn
All my mates are at university, and it’s a life I haven’t had a chance to enjoy, so it’s great to turn up and sample a bit of it. Louis Tomlinson
You can’t just take and sample size a few hundred people and decide that what you think 200 – almost 200 million people are going to vote and go do. It’s a complex country. Brad Parscale
I couldn’t accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample. Reggie Jackson
One of my favourite Donald Byrd tracks is ‘Think Twice,’ and I didn’t want to sample it. I’ve always enjoyed when other people have sampled it, so I wanted to instead of making a beat with it or something like that, or freak the beat of whatever. I wanted to just recreate it in my own way, like how I heard it. J Dilla
I never start a song at the beginning; I always start in the middle, working with the original concept. That might be a loop or a vocal hook. A weird noise or a string sample. Once that’s at the heart of the song, I work concertina-fashion, expanding the song forwards to the end and backwards to the beginning. Goldie
Since the first large Zika outbreak ever recognized, in 2007, the CDC has had boots on the ground responding. Our laboratories have developed a test that can confirm Zika in the first week of illness or in a sample from an affected child. Tom Frieden
There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I’d have musicians come in the studio and replay the sample from the original record. But mainly, we’d come up with our own music. Dr. Dre
Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don’t sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don’t speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage… Philip Glass. Daveed Diggs
I found myself at the beginning of ‘Mad Men,’ because I wasn’t a sample size, spending an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dress that I would never wear again because someone would say – ‘Christina Hendricks wore this dress twice.’ Christina Hendricks
Cable’s on fire. Traditional broadcast TV’s hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like ‘Homeland,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Veep.’ Now reinvention’s important. Darren Star
Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was the Beatles! India Arie
The ‘Down in the DM’ to ‘Rake It Up’ to videos, the artwork… everything is 100 percent me. If you want to sample it, if it’s going to be in a movie, whatever, you gotta call me. Yo Gotti
When you sample something, you’re using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that’s already great, that’s already stood the test of time, that’s already special. When you’re trying to do it all from scratch, you’re writing something brand new that has to stand on its own. G-Eazy
I can make music out of anything. Even that phone ringing, I could sample that. I grew up listening to Missy, Britney, Kelis, Lil Kim, Grace Jones, all the eccentric, out-there women. And men like Freddie Mercury, David Bowie. Those are my peopledem. Bree Runway
The opinions of a convenience sample… may not represent all users. John Quelch
The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is aligned with the human tendency for error; and that only through dislocations in scale – the scale of sample size and of time – will truth emerge. Tom Junod
These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share – music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it. Christian Marclay
Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual. Sarah Zettel
I’ve never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there – I’ve always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could. James Mercer
I have a very small sample size: 2-0 to start my NFL career. Talking a lot of smack. And then I walk into Kansas City and put up the worst football game of my existence. And I’ve always been this brash, arrogant kind of guy. Ryan Leaf
I think that ‘Floor Sample’ is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of ‘Julia the teacher’ and introduce ‘Julia the artist.’ Julia Cameron
We saw that our customers required help beyond the data sets they had and that they could benefit from a wider opinion. So we built SurveyMonkey Audience, and we’ve now got 4 million users who signed up to take surveys. Our clients can choose the demographic they want to hear from, and we can provide that sample. Dave Goldberg
In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I’d chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making. G-Eazy
Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart – well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview. Timothy Morton
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis. Kenneth L. Pike
The national polls are distorted. To get a national sample, they rely too much on Hispanics from New York and California, which is where large populations are but also where most of the radical Hispanics are. Paul Manafort
Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store. Calvin Klein
It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions. Samuel Wilson
A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they’re there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. Harry Connick, Jr.
I think if I wanted to get to a point where I could actually grow in my music, I had to almost step away from sampling so much and start making the kind of music that people wanted to sample. Big K.R.I.T.
I don’t have the option of getting fat. I like to try as much of our products as I can. Our sample size is size large, and I can’t fit into our samples unless I’m at that size. Kevin Plank
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it’s just not going to happen. Vanilla Ice
The Kingsway Music Library was sort of a byproduct of all the creation I was doing. As creators, we kind of just create blindly sometimes and I couldn’t physically see every idea through, so I created this ecosystem where I made the ideas available to people to download, to sample and to put their own twist on it. Frank Dukes
If you really care about Facebook likes, don’t just post your stuff to Twitter and then rely on it being republished automatically to Facebook. In my sample size of one, Facebook penalizes you significantly for that and shows that content to far fewer people. Michael Arrington
As business models evolve, as the way you distribute content evolves, as the ability to do things online changes in terms of pricing or trial or sample, I think we’ve definitely always been out in front of the rest of our competitors. Bobby Kotick
Designers still won’t dress me, and if they do, they will send a dress that doesn’t fit me because it’s the only sample that they have in their office that we can get to in time, and then it’s hard because I don’t want to support certain brands that I don’t feel like are diverse in their messaging. Tess Holliday
I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff. Bill Dixon
I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked. Timbaland
I don’t know, samples are just like unlimited ideas, you know? Sometimes a lot of people sample one song. A lot of it is also really just up to the artist and their creativity to see where it goes and what they want to do. Murda Beatz
I’m a sucker for a sale. I don’t understand why anyone wants to pay full price for anything because everything goes on sale. I love sale websites. In fact – this is almost kind of embarrassing – I’m coming from an Isabel Marant sample sale. Busy Philipps
Designers simply can’t afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample. Nigel Barker
The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample. Bonobo
The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen’s ‘Vibez,’ it was used in Drake’s ‘0-100’ as a sample. Yuna
People come from all over the world to sample Jamaican jerk. Rita Marley
Sample clearances and roll-out plans is what separates mix-tapes & albums. Big K.R.I.T.
I’d love to visit South America, especially Argentina, as I’m a winemaker myself. They do a fantastic malbec, so it would be a dream to sample their grapes. New Zealand would be great, too. I’m a golfer, so it would combine both my loves. Kyle MacLachlan
I’ve been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today – you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies. Isaac Hayes
I actually started making beats first and that was before 2010. I think I was like 14. They were really bad. I used to sample like Arabic music for some reason. Lil Tracy
It’s my first presenting role so I’ll be nervous, but it’s going to be great fun. I can’t wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour. Nicole Appleton
I can definitely make sample size work. Violet Chachki
You know, we’ve got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than ‘The Real Housewives.’ And I think ‘The Real Housewives’ is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows. Andy Cohen
Woodstock didn’t define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist. Alexandra Petri
I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway. Grimes
I work with any producer that brings me a hot beat, but you don’t always know if it’s a sample. Cam’ron
All the ‘Scarface’ beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea. Prodigy
The difference between Spotify and Internet radio services like Pandora is that Spotify is interactive. You can sample the complete catalogue of most artists’ recordings. John Seabrook
A job letter, an interview – even a writing sample – have far less to do with intellect and far more to do with aesthetics than you think. Timothy Morton
Sometimes you’re inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find that with a lot of older Motown music. Bishop Briggs
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. Rudolf Arnheim
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that’s what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample. Mary Roach
What I love about sketch is that the writing of it is idea-based. It’s not story-based. It’s like, ‘This is a behavior, and we’re going to write, in a small sample, the funniest way to heighten this behavior.’ Sitcoms or movies are about story. Adam Pally
I tend to hoard, and hate to shop unless it’s a blow out sale, or a sample sale. Sonja Morgan
Offsetting the sample position every time the sample hits will create more random movement in short samples. Bonobo
I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers. Washed Out
We know Uncle George directly, so he gives us music to sample, all we gotta do is tell him directly and we can use it. Redman
Adele was introduced to me by a guitarist named Mike Hartnett that plays for a band called Rehab. We was just riding around, and he was like, ‘Man have you heard this soul singer Adele?’ and I was like ‘Nah!’ and we just rode to the whole CD, and it got to ‘Hometown Glory,’ and I was like, ‘Man I have to sample that!’ Big K.R.I.T.
I’ve got songs that sample ‘Mario Bros.,’ ‘Charlie Brown,’ the ‘Rugrats’ theme, the music that plays when you turn on a Gamecube. Lil Yachty
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require. Samuel Wilson
When you shop online, wouldn’t you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or the subtle fragrance of flowers before surrendering your credit card number? Surely more companies will want to aromatize their Web presence when they realize there’s a device that can produce genuinely pleasing, authentic fragrances. Charles Platt
None of the sample sizes ever fit me at the photo shoots. One would think that would’ve made me want to lose weight, but I just got rounder. Sophie Dahl
The ability to have that mobility of music right now, where you can be in an airport with a sample library, it means that you can channel that mind-space you’re in when you’re overly tired and in an unfamiliar place. Bonobo
If you aren’t taking a representative sample, you won’t get a representative snapshot. Nate Silver
I had always wanted to sample the White Town song ‘Your Woman’ and to hear what it would sound like with a woman’s vocal since I was a kid. Naughty Boy
I know people who have sampled gospel music, and then they go to clear the sample, and it’s like, ‘You can’t take the Lord’s music and make this.’ Frank Dukes
Not only does work experience provide the opportunity to sample a potential career, but it also builds the essential skills often regarded as ‘soft skills’ that are needed to thrive in work. Esther McVey
I worked on ‘Cadillactica’ with the mind to not sample as much and focus on creativity. Big K.R.I.T.
If I want a hamburger, I’m going to have one. No 21-year-old should be worrying about whether she fits a sample size. Coco Rocha
The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven’t waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written. Greg Rucka
I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. Rodney Dangerfield
I never used to be able to work on the road, I was always strictly in the studio. But not everything’s gotten smaller – I have Ableton on the laptop now and a sample library, which means I can use that downtime to pour it into the music. Bonobo
I was low-key abusing myself. The idea of being skinny became something that was most appealing to me. Even if you watch ‘The Real,’ from season 1 to season 4, I was always 100 lbs. I started to really work hard to stay petite and to not gain weight and to stay sample size. Jeannie Mai
I learned a lot from working with and watching Knxwledge, seeing how he produces non-stop. He doesn’t dwell too long on stuff. He’s very simple, using only about two or three elements. I like that in production. Sometimes it doesn’t take more than three drums, a melody, the vocal, looping a sample or whatever, just as minimal as possible. Anderson Paak
I can sample Blink-182 but put an African vocal sample in there. Doja Cat
I’m not suggesting I met a significant enough number of them to constitute a robust sample size, but I am saying that my general impression of Sri Lankans is that they are friendly, chatty and hospitable people. Romesh Ranganathan
When I sample something, it’s just me drawing from what I’m actually into. It’s whatever sounds like a good track. G-Eazy
In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from. Mikko Hypponen
I may sample at Pinkberry, but when I find a flavor I like, I’m pretty committed to it. CeeLo Green
My life is at least as intricate as my readers’ lives. People say that ‘The Artist’s Way’ changed their lives, but when they talk about ‘Floor Sample,’ they tell me, ‘I was with you all the way.’ Julia Cameron
If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn’t mean I’m going to release that whole album, but I do that. Madlib
I sample a little bit of everything – a bit of ‘House,’ a little bit of ‘Prison Break.’ I love ‘Project Runway;’ it’s my favorite show! Michaela Conlin
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. Henry James Sumner Maine