Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iris Chang

I have friends who are Caucasian who have pitched ideas for a Chinese-American show, and there is great resistance in Hollywood and the networks to support that.

Derek Davis

If you have all these images already, why would you need a computer to create an image that makes him a Caucasian from North Africa?

Carol Smith

If you look at the growing population in this country, the Caucasian population is decreasing. As you move forward into the future, the employees companies will be hiring are not going to look necessarily as they have in the past.

Justin Kirk

I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' by Brecht.

Fisher DeBerry

It's very obvious to me the other day that the other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did, and they ran a lot faster than we did, ... It just seems to be that way, that Afro-American kids can run very, very well. That doesn't mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can't run, but it's very obvious to me they run extremely well.

Alonzo Washington

I want Omega Man to be the equivalent of any Caucasian superhero, like a Superman, Batman, a noble righteous character, ... That's what we're trying to do with Omega Man -- give you a symbol that is African-American but is 100 percent positive.

Jose Lagos

We are going to be sitting in that meeting, facing the committee members and praying in our minds for them to look at our faces -- Asian, Haitian, Latino, even Caucasian -- who are watching at this historic moment to see what they produce.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Here in Russia,, in many cities, people are irritated by Caucasian intrusion. Caucasians come from foreign countries; they are ubiquitous: in markets, shops, hotels, restaurants. They misbehave, and in this sense we have feelings similar to those that the Germans have toward the Turks and the French toward Algerians.

Max Heindel

When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Caucasian may mean little or nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie and vice versa.

Hayden Christensen

I was looking forward to this film because this was the side of Anakin's character that I was really looking forward to playing ... that sort of transitional phase of his life where he goes to the dark side.

Andrew Sorensen

Jack Pratt has the character, the leadership skills and the qualities to inspire confidence and optimism.

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

George Bodenheimer

Keith Jackson is a man of great character and a legendary broadcaster. For decades, his unmistakable style defined college football for millions of fans. While we hate to say goodbye, we understand his decision and wish him the very best.

Sela Ward

I swore I'd never do another hour show... until I read the first page of this script and I just hooked into Lily's character so much and the writing.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Ann Nocenti

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

Anna Friel

I also like the fact that the character isn't a typical footballer's wife, she doesn't need the bling and being at the forefront of everything.

Richard Masur

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

Kathleen Hanna

I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.

Don Moore

What we give them is the equivalent of a catered experience of being in a band.

Jacques Chirac

It is now time for our partners to make equivalent proposals in a spirit of give and take, in agriculture as well as in manufacturing and services.

Alice Thompson

Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of Macdonald's, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture.

Shirley Chisholm

In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

Frank Beamer

I personally like it, ... I think our kids like it. I think it's the equivalent of Monday night football in the pros. You're the only game on or you're the most important game on TV.

Rebel Wilson

In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters.

Frank McKenna

the equivalent of someone standing on street corners, turning in jaywalkers, and then getting the fine money.

Tom Kloza

These are markets where overreaction follows overreaction. It's manic or it's depressive. It never gets even. You have the equivalent of a Dow that moves 4,000 or 5,000 points in a month.

Will Grace

Jack-This makes me feel like a man. Will-Yeah. Jack- No, seriously, I'm going to need a man after we're done.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Kevin Lowe

I would stake my reputation on that man because I know him, and I know he hasn't done anything wrong.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

Mike Gruber

He was a callow young man, not physical. Kind of the opposite of what he is now.

Peter Hobson

He didn't whimper, he didn't cry, he didn't beg. He took it like a man.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Rick Berry

He is the president. We have to respect the office. But I don't respect the man.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Queen Elizabeth II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

William Wordsworth

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

Samuel Rutherford

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

Samuel Johnson

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

Wallace Stevens

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Rocco DiSpirito

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

Roberto Rossellini

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

Sarah Dessen

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

Winston Churchill

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes...

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

John Rittenhouse

He should be at about 95 percent for states.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Ed Peterson

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

Terry Semel

We've done that, and they now represent approximately 40 percent of our total revenue.

Eric Price

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

Bible Bible

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

Lloyd Alexander

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Clarence Darrow

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Russell M. Nelson

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

Matthew Arnold

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

Nikolai Gogol

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

Jessica Brown Findlay

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

Lynn Schusterman

As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.

Lisa Mendler

Helen is a symbol of the tenacity of our people.

Paul Tagliabue

He was mythic. He symbolizes football, and, more importantly, he symbolizes leadership.

W. H. Auden

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

Paul Emsley

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

Philippe Starck

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Shirin Neshat

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

John McCain

Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Derek Stafford

He comes out every day. He comes out just like we do. He's just trying to get better.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Keith Cooper

I was ducking this way, then ducking that way, trying to get away. I had no idea what was going on.