Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Dorothy Height

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

Dick Gregory

Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?

Desmond Tutu

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Amber Riley

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

Anthony Mackie

There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.

Andrew Young

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

Andrew Young

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Alvin Ailey

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

Chellie Pingree

I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.

Tyler Smith

We are excavating the site. We hope to have the sales center open in three weeks.

Bernard Bailey

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

Felipe Alou

Finley is going to play even if everybody is healthy, and he is going to play center field when he plays.

Mitra Ishaya

Financially it was putting a great strain on the resources of the center itself, supporting teachers in other centers.

Tom Cody

Finally, L.A. will have a center that's worthy of the city.

Howie Mandel

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

Diane Paulus

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Sean Georges

If we hit our free throws, this was a brawl instead of a barnburner.

Ken Flowers

If we hit our free throws, the game is over. Our free-throw shooting was very poor today.

Sean Dockery

If they hit their free throws, it would have been a game. They did everything else right.

Joe Leonard

If they want to go somewhere else, they are free to do so.

Penny Geinger

She's a tough girl. She'll find a way, through free throws, driving, slashing to the baskets. She's going to do something every game.

Sara Schopper

She's real quick and she knows how to knock down her free throws.

Brianna Morrow

She's been a little sick, but she gutted it out. She made some pressure free throws, especially with Hill hitting those 3s.

Marshall Ballard

She's one of the ones in practice who always steps up and makes free throws. She's clutch.

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Chris Martin

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

Marshall McLuhan

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

Patrick Lussier

If people enjoy the film, it can be really intriguing to see what created that film, how each one of those unique components came together, who the people are who did it and what it meant to them to do it.

Nawal El Saadawi

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

Mark Wahlberg

That whole world, the world of bodybuilding to me is fascinating. It's such a unique and interesting culture, and everything about it appeals to me.

Mark Buchanan

Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock and refuge right in the thick of our situation.

Mark Batterson

What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

Marian McPartland

Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he has made them available to the world through his orchestrations of his work in a unique way. Lastly, he was himself a fine pianist. He covers the entire musical spectrum with his genius.