Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toni Thorn

Having a black president doesn't mean anything. He is not the black president. He is just a president that happened to be black. He has yet to do anything for minority students on this campus.

Clara Taylor

I think we thought we were mentally prepared for everything that's come into this case. But to see that chain was bone-chilling. It made me think back to the slaves -- of slavery when you saw black men chained and brought over on ships.

E. O. Wilson

It goes both ways. They know if they throw it in, we're not black holes. It will come back out.

Mark Murray

I think this is just a remarkable black eye for Oracle.

Dusty Baker

He wasn't all black. It was black and white, so it doesn't mean nothing.

Jose Theodore

I don't feel I have anything to hide. It's not something that I got on the black market. It was a prescription from the doctor for eight years, so I don't feel uncomfortable by anything.

Dane Hansen

I don't dream in black and white, so I guess it's this whole other side of things for me.

Neil Robertson

I didn't do anything wrong to go 3-0 down, it's just that Shaun played so well, but you're better off losing three frames like that than missing the final black when you've had a chance to win.

Alonzo Washington

I come from a long line (of strong black women) and have been involved with strong black women, so I have to (make) Original Woman a strong character. She could never be the back half of Omega Man. It just couldn't happen.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Gary Brown

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Rich Beem

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Jay Anderson

Jose was just in the right spot at the right time on all three of those goals. I wouldn't call them garbage goals, I think it was more of his hustle that made it happen. He's got great vision of the game and he's just in the right spot all the time.

Jim Newman

It means a lot to all the veterans, and I think they'll all have closure now that they never could have before, and they'll be able to talk about experiences there that they never were able to, before,

Brad Kullman

They've been intensive. They will get more intensive until we get something done. I'm hopeful. We're focusing all of our energies to do that now. We'll reach closure one way or another.

Tom Watson

There was damage to roofs there. Debris on the highway forced the closure of U.S. 45.

M. Thompson

When you walk out in the garden and you remember it is a memorial to a really young girl that was killed, you wonder if you can ever have closure on that.

Leonard Johnson

Oh God, I thank God I could see him, I had some closure too, I got to say goodbye.

Mack Brown

There are a lot of rewards for winning, and one that you dream about is to get a National Championship ring. They've had trips to the White House, some have been on Oprah and the celebration was wonderful, but this pretty much puts closure to last year's team.

Aziz Ahmad

As the situation has changed, we have been taking gradual steps towards the closure of the missions and submissions,

Richard Ragan

We're very much sort of in a closure mode on the humanitarian side.

Marguerite Cotto

We tend to think of program closure as a last resort.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Laura Tyson

I think that's understood as a policy issue in China. I don't think it's understood as a policy issue in the United States.

Kip Meek

There is an issue that needs to be addressed.

Peter Clarke

We may be more vulnerable to sea level rise than we thought and it may be more rapid than we have anticipated. This is an issue we should take very seriously.

Bill Graham

I did point out (that) his is a minority that is even less strong than ours and on many of these issues he knows that not only (does) he represent a minority of members of the House, but also in terms of the electorate.

Jack Cardetti

He is literally tiptoeing around this issue as he travels around Missouri.

Wangari Maathai

Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.

Steve Kinney

I'm not going to have any neighbors for a while.

Scott Edwards

It's going to be a quiet March. The neighbors (on the beach) should be happy.

Jon Huntsman

This could be the state of Utah we're talking about. We're doing it for our neighbors this time, but it could well have been Utah,

Jose Rivera

Neighbors come by and give us food. We have support.

Greg Evans

Most people don't realize their neighbors are as nosy as they are.

Tony Diggs

You all are the key. They trust their neighbors and their child's teachers more than any of the rest of us sitting up here.

Frank Pasquarello

We evacuated neighbors for safety precautions for threats he was making.

Bill Church

I do respect the neighbors and want to work with the neighbors.

Russell Brand

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Steve Frank

Parker comforted them. He was quiet and gentle. He was what they needed.

Maribeth Smith

If you want to park on the west side of downtown, come down on the west side. If you want to park east, park east, don't rely on Meridian.

Jim Lowe

In the Wal-Mart parking lot, they had a regular city.

Tony Marino

I just wish people would go with the flow. I mean, a parking meter is like a restaurant table: We have to turn these things over.

Kathy Fackler

It sounds like a reasonable step for a self-regulated park to take.

Ted Forrest

It's better than parking in the parking lot. This way, you just pull right up to the curb, pick up your people and go.

Larry the Cable Guy

I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

Rick Smith

It's about as special a park as you can find.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

Lewis Wolff

I like the A's best, but I like the White Sox and Angels,

Nate Berkus

They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

Harvey Levin

I didn't feel like it was essential to have a white host or a black host, I wanted a good host.