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.

Rick James

Somebody told me it's the oldest legitimate black-owned business enterprise. It's pretty much the cornerstone of the black community.

Maxwell

Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'

Eddie Davis

Now is the opportunity to have deeper thoughts on what her work has been after he died. Rosa Parks has passed. Now Coretta. What is evident to me is the number of distinguished black Americans who are dying. Hopefully, we will embrace their work and think of their contributions, They were major contributors to civil rights and to the dignity of all people in this country.

Mickey Rivers

No wonder you're all mixed up. You got a white man's first name, a Spanish man's second name and a black man's third name.

Juan Williams

So much focus in the country is the impoverished minority community. But while 25 percent of the black community lives in poverty, 75 percent is outside of that. It doesn't always get in the news.

John Davies

Ten years ago when Dan Blue was speaker, he had $125,000 and everybody thought it was an outrage. Today, Speaker Black has over a million dollars, and no one thinks it's an outrage. It's gotten that competitive.

Diane Farr

Sometimes I even feel funny to say I'm in a biracial marriage because people are like, 'Oh, he's Asian?' The subtext is, 'Who cares? You didn't marry a black person.'

Jimmy Smith

Put those guys in those dark jerseys, those heat-seeking, heat-soaking dark blue jerseys.

Alan King

The way Blue Gene works its magic is the multiplicity of networks built into the back end. With 65,000 processors, an intelligent network was needed to work around system failures, so there was a lot of effort directed toward making this a reliable system as well as a fast and efficient one.

Brian Henson

We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we've have audiences that don't really want us to go too far in that direction.

Al Yankovic

You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.

Bryan Murray

We did not have enough depth on the blue line that we could let him go for the waiver price,

James Wright

In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

Barbara Bush

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

Bob Clarke

Another 200 people showed up; 200 people came out of the blue just because they'd heard about it. There was a standing ovation at the end of the movie.

Daniel Reichart

Dust scatters blue light out, but it's much more gradual.

David Rosenberg

As for the employment report, I think there's a danger of overreacting over the message from it because this was the third warmest January in the past 112 years.

Judith Jamison

People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind.

Philippe Petit

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.

Mafumi Usui

Depressed, young people and the Internet - it's a very dangerous mix.

Ron Krumer

One could say that the life of the prime minister is in danger.

Elizabeth Hernandez

It was worth the cold, the hunger and the danger we went through.

Donald Black

I see no danger is seeing persons spending a dollar on a lottery ticket, but I have had patients who spend enormous amounts of money just on the lottery,

Becky Hammon

They are a lot more dangerous now. She's exactly what they needed.

Dan McCarthy

This is developing into a potentially dangerous situation.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Greg Spires

The most important thing is that we're playing together and everybody is gelling, everybody likes each other, ... Everybody wants to win, and when you're winning, everybody's happy.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Warren Sapp

Once you've sat at the king's table, you know what it's like. That's a feast that everybody is going to be trying, ... It's a matter of us just repeating our success. It sounds crazy. But we do it one day at a time.

Charlie Wilson

Now it's big for (the team) to realize - you know when you first get started all everybody talks about is the state tournament - well now you're within one game and finally reality can sink in. If we play hard we could do this. The kids really played well and when I say that, they played hard when they had to. We made some key plays, we made some key buckets. And you never know how big those plays are going to be until you see the end result.

Paulo Autuori

This is not unexpected. Everybody knew we would have problems (after the matches were voided).

Daniel Cramblett

That's kind of the way it has worked for us this year. We haven't had everybody on at the same time.

Jared Zabransky

That's kind of one of our goals around here, to get everybody involved. ... As long as we're winning, that's our main goal.

Kenneth Williams

As of now, we haven't gotten any kind of request from the state to open our shelters.

David Vitter

The situation has gotten a lot better. The water is not rising right now in New Orleans.

Doc Sadler

The thing about Southern Miss is that they've gotten better and better each game.

Shari Brill

I've always gotten a kick out that show.

Rich Aurilia

The one thing I wish would have happened was we would have scored one more run for Milton. I wish he could have gotten a win out of that instead of a no-decision.

Timothy Ghriskey

So the message here, spread your investments around, ... If you've gotten hurt this year in technology, learn from that and diversify your investments.

David Hunt

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.

Claire Rubin

The sad part is 13, 14 years later, we don't seem to have gotten much smarter, ... If anything, we've lost traction.

Jimmy Williams

It was windy and the situation could have gotten really serious.

Alex Rodriguez

You're representing 400 million (300 million, actually) Americans. That's a pretty big responsibility.

Bob Collins

You've got to say this was ill-conceived, poorly planned. We now have $1 million spent on a ferry that's going nowhere.

Chuck Pavlos

You're going to have a million people in this corridor.

Russell Perreault

There are more than 300 million people in the US, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there.

America Ferrera

They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand!

Magglio Ordonez

We've got 25 million people in Venezuela. At least 24 million are going to be watching the games.

Martin Grove

could see these pictures go to $100 million or more worldwide.

Parker Palmer

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

George Pechtel

We wanted $3.4 million to get to Seventh Avenue.

Ben Jonson

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Aaron Spelling

Ten years of any show is amazing, but one about a minister? Wow.

Andre Agassi

Ten weeks ago, I didn't know where things were going to go,

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

John Avlon

Politics is history in the present tense.

Dee Brown

We didn't play as well as we wanted defensively and offensively. We're not doing the things we want but we'll take the win. The Big Ten is a grind-it-out conference.

Clive James

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Donald Young

I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.

Andre Agassi

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.