Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alphonso Jackson

The so-called black leaders of this nation have convinced a large portion of the black community that blacks aren't capable of self-advancement.

Mollie Mayfield

After a week, we had a lot of black marks from track shoes on them. It causes an abrasion that slows down the surface, so our varsity team is not playing on as fast of courts as they may encounter.

Mal Peet

It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.

Thomas Davis

It was all black in front of me, I couldn't see anything, I couldn't hear anything, then it was over.

Catherine Campbell

It was a known reality. If those two black inmates went to the yard, as they had to, and they were followed out there by southern Hispanics, there was going to be a fight.

Steve Allen

These black holes are very efficient, but it also takes a very long time to refuel them.

Eroll Skyers

The stereotype is that young equals liberal and therefore soft on crime. The stereotype is also black equals liberal and soft on crime. The stereotype is further unmarried parent equals liberal. Therefore, young black waitress with child is a defense juror, supposedly.

Peter Steele

I've been wearing black pants and green shirts now for like thirteen years. It works.

Daniel Alfredsson

I used black tape the whole game, but switched to an old stick that had white near the end.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Rod Smith

The season is nowhere near over. We just can't go undefeated. That's the only thing.

Ron Zarrella

Don't look for any number near this in July,

Baha'u'llah

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

Brian Sullivan

You have a rising tide out there, and it's even better if you're not near the water.

Earl Steele

You have to be able to get them near you before you have to worry about them seeing you.

Pascal Lamy

you have to go as near as possible to the people who want to punch you.

Paul Carter

You go in it or near it and you're dead.

English 15th Century Proverbs

Near is my kirtle, but nearer is my smock.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Scott Westerfeld

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Zoe McLellan

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

Jayme Wilson

We know it?s going to be a challenge. We?re going to try to stick to what we do and give them a game.

Thomas S. Monson

Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.

Tina St. John

Holy Moses on a pogo stick!!

Steffi Graf

I am a person who sticks to her word.

Stephen Covey

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

Steve Squyres

It is a big step. We've really switched gears.

Ronnie Milsap

As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

Patti Hansen

I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.

Harvey Korman

Tape Seinfeld for me.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

Derrick Bell

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

Dean Koontz

Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Diane Kruger

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.