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.

Robert Rowe

Some of those reports are filed and then go into a black hole. Other times there are no reports. The processes were there, but just because they're in place doesn't necessarily mean that people are going to follow them.

Michael Miller

Some of this is just simply fashion, what's cool and what people like. Black fits nicely in a lot of decor, and it looks cool and slimmer.

Deshea Townsend

That black looks so good when you're out there playing. I'd rather have the black. If I'm going to the Super Bowl, I want to be wearing the black.

John Morrison

Textbooks often reflect one perspective. There's a lot more history than what the textbooks tell us. (Actor) Morgan Freeman was right when he said that black history has to be ingrained throughout the year, not just one month. We're starting to do that a little bit. Change is starting to come.

Edmund Phelps

My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

Georgia May Jagger

My mum taught me a lot about fashion in terms of knowing what looks good on you and developing my own sense of style. Even when we were shooting the Sunglass Hut campaign, we went through racks of clothing together, and ultimately I decided on a short, more fitted peplum dress, while Mum opted for a sexy blazer and black leggings.

Sarah Price

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

Terry Grant

They want me to play running back. Wherever you go, you've got to work to be the best. Competition is good.

Clara Barton

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Rem Koolhaas

The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.

Thom Gunn

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

Thomas Bernhard

One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.

Vidal Sassoon

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

Victor Hugo

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

Veronica Lake

I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.

Stephanie Cutter

President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.

Usain Bolt

The clubs, that's easy to cut out, because I know when the season ends I can look forward to going out.

Sophie Kinsella

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

Anne Sexton

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

Amanda Hocking

When you told me you loved me," Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.

Rosa Bonheur

The eye-is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?

Ron Rash

John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest novelists as well. His poet's eye for detail seamlessly merges with a born storyteller's gift for narrative. Fate Moreland's Widow gives voice to those who endured one of the most painful and neglected chapters in American history.

Susan Sarandon

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

Susan Griffin

Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest asteroid ever to hit it and on a clear night you should be able to see the impact when it happens, maybe even with the naked eye but certainly with binoculars. They made it sound pretty dramatic, but I still don't think it's worth three homework assignments.

Steve Case

Keep your eye on the prize and focus on your mission. Remember what you’re trying to do, what your value is, why it’s important, and at the same time, change course and direction. If the market’s telling you different things how are you going to adjust to that?

Sri Chinmoy

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart.

Demi Lovato

Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!

Sydney J. Harris

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

Ellen DeGeneres

If success is really dependent on someone liking you or not liking you, and you have to teeter on that kind of tightrope of how you're supposed to act and how you're supposed to look and who you are, it's just not a healthy way to live.