Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janice Dickinson

I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

Dennis Prager

Without aging white males, I doubt the 'New York Times' would survive. How many young people, females, Hispanics and blacks subscribe to the 'New York Times?'

Christopher Walken

Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.

Christopher Meloni

Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?

Christopher Morley

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Christopher Morley

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

Ansel Adams

While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.

Anne Beatts

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

Anthony Edwards

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Naya Rivera

I feel like showering more than once a day or every day is such a white people thing.

Muhammad Ali

How come the Chinese can go where I can't go in America? Englishmen can come and set up a business in white America and do things I can't do.The Puerto Rican, Hawaiians, just about everybody can do more than black people and are more respected.

Muhammad Ali

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

Muhammad Ali

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

Martin Jacques

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

Mitt Romney

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

Margaret Atwood

I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.

David Horn

Some people like to go fishing, ... We like to work cattle.

Linda Pierce

Some people know how to teach, and some know how to do.

Elizabeth Jones

Some people just like the simplicity of a single ring.

Wynne Wakley

Some people just can't take the pressure or the stress. Those are the people who we try to weed out.

Martin Freeman

Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.

Bill Bullard

Some people have spent a lot of time on this proposal already,

Richard Prince

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Ian Jackson

Some people would've shut themselves away, and she was never like that, ... She was very willing to go out and talk about it.