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!

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Gerald Gray

To the man who got shot, I apologize.

Clara Schumann

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

H. L. Hunt

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

Norman Ford

The question ""Who ought to be boss?"" is like as ""Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?"" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Dorothy Stratten

In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.

Robin Williams

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

Bill Owen

Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!

Christian Louboutin

Some people don't even know my name, but they know I am the man with the red soles.

P. Herbert

Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.

Pete Rose

Not all rock 'n' roll is like that,

Scott Ian

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

Kevin Hart

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

Kevin Hart

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

Rachel Miner

I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

Lenny Kravitz

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

Lester Bangs

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

Lester Bangs

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

David Mamet

At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor, someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes, about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man!'

David Christian

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

Dave Attell

For me, Molly Hatchet is high school. It makes me feel like I have hair and a future.

Curtis Hanson

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Andre Leon Talley

I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.

Alice Hoffman

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Alice Eve

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.

Anna Chlumsky

My family and school life are important to me.

Andy Partridge

Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn