Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mollie Mayfield

After a week, we had a lot of black marks from track shoes on them. It causes an abrasion that slows down the surface, so our varsity team is not playing on as fast of courts as they may encounter.

Mark Valley

I used to wear Clark Kent glasses, ever since I was in college. I used to have those Army-issue glasses, and they used to be those black glasses Clark Kent used to wear. And I wore those for years.

John Wozniak

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.

Ridley Scott

The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned.

Adora Nweze

This is another black eye, another slap in the face of the black community.

Stephanie Herseth

This is a terrific opportunity to shine a spotlight on important issues surrounding Black Hills National Forest, including forest health and wildfire prevention. Ensuring appropriate forest policy is essential not only to preserving South Dakota's wonderful natural resources, but to our tourism and economy as well.

Lee Peterson

This is a terrible situation and we need to have compassion. The truth is Black people died not because of President Bush or racism, they died because of their unhealthy dependence on the government and the incompetence of Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Kathleen Blanco,

Gene Kimmelman

This is the government making your TV go black and then only paying part of the costs for some of the people to make it work again, and none of the costs for others.

Russlynn Ali

This is the first time I've heard (O'Connell) say the gap is huge and that we're serving our white kids well, but we have a long way to go with black and brown children.

Russian Proverb

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far place.

Katie Nordhaus

People tend to forget around the New Year. I think it's just because it's winter-time, and it's cold out, and people are sedentary. Who wants to be outside in the cold walking a dog?

Scott Smith

So much of natural gas prices is weather related. If it's colder people tend to use more energy. And because it's a nationwide market, if it's cooler in New England it's going to drive up the price for us as well.

William Cullen Bryant

The words of fire that from his penWere flung upon the fervid page,Still move, still shake the hearts of men,Amid a cold and coward age.

James Baker

This is going to be a cold winter. Be ready for more.

John Cunningham

The weather is bad, so we are sending in cold weather kit.

Scott Shane

I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.

Lewis J. Bates

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

Fadel Gheit

We could see the market getting tight in the event that we have a really cold winter.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Rue McClanahan

Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

Atharva Veda

The monks have tried everything and failed; the virtuous have grown weary of singing God's Glories.

Michael Sanders

Do you guys know that this basil is grown in Maine, in the winter? And if you look at it - look at this, see this. This is grown not in dirt. It's grown in water.

Bible Bible

But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

Scott Bauman

Honestly, if you would have told me in November that we'd have a winning record after losing over half our scoring team from last year, I would have laughed. But these kids have come together and grown and learned, and I'm as proud of them as I could be.

Robert Blake

I didn't have much of a life, ... My kids were grown and gone. I was very, very single a loner.

Tony Meola

I think every week we've grown and I think we have a better understanding of each other. It's still a new team. My expectations at the start are like everyone else's in the league, and that's to try to win a championship.

Steve Scruggs

That was something we could absorb. From 2004 to 2005, we have grown exponentially. We can't keep up with that.

Leonard Hamilton

That was one we really, really needed. It was obvious we have grown up a little bit.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Source Unknown

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Oprah Winfrey

You said, 'I'm going to be on your show,' and I was more interested in the car. People say that to me all the time - they say, 'Hey Oprah, I just wrote a book,' or 'I'm a singer,' but you're the first person who ever made that true.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

Boris Spassky

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

Brian Tracy

There's an interesting study that says wealthy people get up three hours before their first outside appointment.

Jamie Bell

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

Ben Gibbard

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

Antonio Tarver

the Roy Jones of old just to survive.

Jon Cryer

I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse.

Steve Jackson

I don't know how old you are. I'm 64 myself, live in Kansas and I love Jon Stewart. Why? Because he's funny!

John Oliver

Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.

John Harper

Who do we want to take for U.S. history? Mrs. Jones requires a term paper and outside reading. Mrs. Smith you pretty much need a pulse and you'll get by,

Robert Brusca

It's like an old Jonathan Winters movie - 'The Russians aren't coming! The Russians aren't coming.' And they'll probably never be here.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Baha'u'llah

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

Dave Tippett

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Walt Whitman

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Jason Wallace

That leaves it up to me to make plays and open it up for him, and then we'll be pretty interchangeable.

Josh Franco

It puts a strain on you. It leaves us wondering what are we going to do?

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Matthew Perry

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

J. R. Celski

I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

Susan Dolan

They are about her life down there, where she has some property. She spent a lot of time on the water.

James Salter

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

Lucinda Williams

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

James Williams

The words that matter most in my life now is when people tell me that I remind them of my brother,

Charles Flynn

This is a really important moment in the life of this plane and the life of this story.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Atticus Ross

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Lucy Punch

I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Jacqueline McKenzie

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Charles Evers

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

Cynthia McKinney

In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.

Countee Cullen

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.