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.

Bill Cosby

i was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew...

Judith Orloff

The archetype of the witch is very powerful, and each woman has that witch inside her in a powerful good sense, not in terms of black magic,

Carolyn Compton

That was part of it. I don't want to say Katie just had six points, because she was out there playing the game with a black eye, and she was everywhere doing what Katie does, but we really did struggle offensively.

Karen Cooper

That's the reason we're taking a lot of very heavy black plastic bags. That's not something I'm looking forward to.

Dick Thompson

That's because we looked at what happened in the 1918 pandemic. That caused the greatest number of deaths ever recorded from an infectious disease in a single year, by far. More than the black plague, more than any other infectious disease,

Richard Sherman

I was on Memorial Bridge heading home when I saw the black smoke pouring out from the trees. I called 911 and headed toward the house. I thought a house was on fire. It was pure black.

Glenn Loury

I was once considered one of the pre-eminent black conservatives in the past, but now I'm more of a black progressive and I'm in the right place,

Phillip Woods

I'm excited to be back on the home court. We always play well at the House.

Tom Greene

We would have no problem hiring a few full time and part time, ... We're always looking for experienced people.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Thomas Carlyle

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Thomas Carlyle

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

Thomas Carlyle

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Tony Levin

Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what weve done in the past.

Tony Campolo

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

Tony Campolo

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Eve

I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice.