Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

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

Anne Rice

I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.

Andrew Sullivan

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

D. H. Lawrence

Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

Danny Glover

Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. Period. The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does. And who he has at the table. And what he does to change the world - that's what's important.

Curt Flood

I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

Andre Leon Talley

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

Alice Childress

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

Demi Lovato

I feel most confident when I'm taking care of my body and my skin.

Henry David Thoreau

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

Robert Duncan McNeill

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

Nina Hagen

I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.

Mitch Albom

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Mitch Albom

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

Mike Tyson

I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.

Miguel de Cervantes

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Neil Gaiman

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

John Waters

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.