Famous Quotes & Sayings

Curtis Preston

Security is a frustrating business. And the hardest thing to do is stop an internal black hat. The risk can't ever totally be eliminated -- it can only be minimized.

E. O. Wilson

For us, to have her here for Black History Month, is just a real coup.

Sarah Price

My whole life I've been trying to show people I'm a decent woman, not just a black woman.

August Wilson

My plays are talky; I say shut up and listen. They are about black men talking, and in American society you don't too often have that because the feeling is: 'What do black men have to say?'

Stacey Hill

My mother always told me to never limit my dreams to our economic situation. Therefore, I have always lived my life without limitations, knowing that I could do whatever the next person was doing, whether they were black or white, rich or poor.

Kelis

My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.

John Roberts

Judges wear black robes because it doesn't matter who they are as individuals. That's not going to shape their decision. It's their understanding of the law that will shape their decision.

Larry McReynolds

Maybe that didn't work so well me doing that with Senior. I remember once we had a 20-minute penalty in practice, and NASCAR wouldn't start the penalty until the driver was on pit road. And Senior was just raising cane, sitting in that hot black car. He said he was getting out and coming back to the garage. So I told him 'Well, I wouldn't sit in that hot car either ... you've only made a gazillion dollars sitting in it. I wouldn't sit in it another 20 minutes either.'

Joe Ramos

Manny has nothing but high regards for The Black Eyed Peas.

Theresa May

I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?'

Neil Young

Out of the blue and into the black

John Green

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

Cassandra Clare

I'm Magnus Bane." he went on in a soothing tone, stretching out his ringed hands. Blue sparks had begun to dance between them like bioluminescence dancing water. "I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was comming?" "I know who you are, but..." Maia looked dazed. "You look so... so... shiny.

P. G. Wodehouse

...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.

Paul Erdos

Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.

Paul Feig

Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic.

Marta Andreasen

As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.

Murray Rothbard

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.

Bella Thorne

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

Bobby Hamilton

I can't think about what happened in 2001 and what kind of season it was. It was a good season. But like I say, I hope I can have a season like that, turn it back around and go to the big dance (this year).

Angelina Jolie

There are so many wonderful pledges that could come in in the next few years, but this winter is in the next few weeks and so many people are in danger of possibly freezing to death,

Martha Graham

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Mahalia Jackson

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

Jody Bronson

We've been working toward getting everybody healthy in practice. They showed a lot of heart out there today. It was an all-around effort.

Robert Gordon

Basically, we want everybody to stop for a minute and think about what it is they love about Litchfield, so it will be an example of what we're trying to save.

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?".

Linda Evans

There are no words to express this. Everybody says there's nothing they can do. This is outrageous.

Marvin Emerson

I told the guys at halftime that's why everybody practices. We just needed to be patient, get into our offense, and not let them get a run.

Marilyn Monroe

Why haven't I the right to grow and expand like everybody else?

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.