Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

William Falconer

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Sandra Cisneros

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

William O. Douglas

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

Yelawolf

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

Gary Newman

A lot comes down to how passionate Mitch is to keep it going.

Jerry Woods

Steve was a tough businessman who also had a passionate side. He always wanted to give back to the community, but he didn't want the recognition. He wouldn't like this at all.

Lea Michele

Find something you’re passionate about and you know, do something.

Peter Zumthor

I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

Joseph Wambaugh

I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

Dave Ramsey

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Richard Sherman

Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

Wislawa Szymborska

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Robert Kennedy

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Sophia Loren

I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.

Laini Taylor

No, tiny violent one.

Halle Berry

I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

Richard Flanagan

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

Allison Tolman

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

Muhammad Yunus

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.