Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Nora Ephron

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

Monique Coleman

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

Mark Rothko

There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

Oscar Wilde

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Lucille Clifton

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

Louis Farrakhan

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

Lorraine Hansberry

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

Michael Rooker

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

Thomas Hobbes

We are not to renounce our senses and experience, nor (that which is the undoubted Word of God) our natural Reason. For they are the talents which he hath put into our hands to negotiate, till the coming again of our blessed savior, and therefore not to be folded up in the napkin of an implicate faith, but employed in the purchase of justice, peace, and true religion. For though there be many things in God's Word above Reason--that is to say, which cannot by natural reason be either demonstrated or confuted--yet there is nothing contrary to it.

Steven Moffat

Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.

Ryan Simmons

My ultimate career goal is to just try to find a niche where I can make a living at making people happy, and using the talents I have been blessed with. What good is making a ton of money if you can't have any fun in life? I am so lucky to be able to be one of the clowns who help people find joy in their life.

Donte' Stallworth

Other than us staying here for a while, I don't even see myself as a victim because there are people who have lost family members, have lost everything they worked for in life and don't know when they're going to get their next meal or their next bottle of water. It's easy for me to stay focused knowing that those people are the ones who are struggling and not me. I've been blessed enough to be able to get out of there and get some of my things out of there.

Ellen DeGeneres

I get paid very well for an amazing, amazing life. I'm blessed.

Tim Parun

I've had a lot of fun over the last 25 years and haven't dedicated myself too much to anything. I've been pretty much blessed to be able to play the way I have. But I've got a little more drive now to want to do a little more, to bring myself up to another level.

Kyle Hudson

Oh man, it seems I'm going in a hundred different directions, but I have a great time. We have a great group of guys here, there's a great group of guys in football. I just feel blessed to get to do this.

Paul Hewitt

It just makes you realize how blessed you are.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I feel very, very blessed.

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Mark Indelicato

My friends actually found a fansite of mine, and they all registered to be in it.

Fred Powell

They found two Louisiana Swamp Tour Vans that were charging $40 apiece,

Kim Capllonch

They spoke with his girlfriend last night when they found the vehicle and he has not been seen since. She's not sure where he is.

Jim Seals

It's one of the most personally gratifying things I've ever done. It really made it so when I got to meet Karen and see how healthy she is, ... I can't stress how happy I am that I found out she lives up the road.

Shirley MacLaine

They didn't even tell me about that. I found out the next day on set, ... They didn't even tell (co-star) Kevin Costner, either.

Mike Carson

They found they needed to put $400 million to $700 million into the school system.

Todd Ellis

They found holes in her intestine, holes in her stomach and a significant quantity of granular pellets from the lawn treatment.

Sgt. Edl

This lady would have been found in the spring.

Russ Diamond

They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from the four months it was open, and we found out how our government works in Harrisburg.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Todd Bradley

I feel the time is right for me to move on to another challenge.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Eli Manning

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

Malcolm Gladwell

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

John Lasseter

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.