Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maisie Williams

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Jarome Iginla

That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt.

Barbara Kingsolver

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

Augusten Burroughs

The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.

Aziz Ansari

I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

Ayn Rand

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Benjamin Disraeli

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Kenneth Branagh

It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where you're 'The Blockbuster Guy.' That's a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say.

Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Linda Hamilton

Coach McBride's wife . . . you don't see too many women, from another race, to be hugging a big, old black guy like me,

Gene Cathcart

Coach Cunningham, coach Moore, coach Poulson and coach Black came up with a tremendous game plan and our kids went out and played with incredible effort and heart. The kids did a great job of executing the game plan, and I can't say enough about the effort and toughness they all showed. This is the kind of defense that championship teams are built on.

Alphonso Jackson

The so-called black leaders of this nation have convinced a large portion of the black community that blacks aren't capable of self-advancement.

Carlton Cuse

The thing we love most about Hurley is he's somehow able to say what people are saying in their living rooms just about the time people are saying it. We thought everyone's expectation would be for her to have a black husband. We wanted to confound everyone's expectation. Everyone would be looking for the 50-year-old black guy.

C. C. H. Pounder

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

Saffron Aldridge

I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.

Jeremy Mayfield

I've always wanted to run a black car, ... They just look cool, especially under the lights for a night race. I like to operate in stealth mode, and maybe they won't see me coming in the black Dodge Charger. Hopefully I can drive right by them to the front of the field.

Joanna Lumley

I've always used my hair for whatever it is needed for. I had it an inch long and jet black for a Pinter play I did. Changes you completely.

John Sayles

The movie starts on a broader level, with black humor. But when you realize the joke is on us, it's not so funny.

Craig Holman

The Senate ethics rules are so weak that a senator is not required to set up a blind trust if there is a conflict of interest.

Turhan Douglas

Right now the side blinders are on and we can't worry about everybody else. If we just win our three remaining (matches), we have a really good shot at making the playoffs. We're fighting for our lives now.

Edie Falco

To some extent, she did. She knew who he was, and I think that was part of what excited her about him. She didn't know exactly what she was signing up for, maybe she didn't know how it would feel to be living this life. But she was not blind to what was going to be happening.

Michael Sullivan

What's difficult about cleaning blinds at home is that it's very messy.

Tim Jones

We are building and developing our own training center for manufacturers to come in and work with blind people to get our views and opinions on this technology.

Bob Hoffman

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

James Hetfield

We just plow through it all. We put the blinders on and just go. We don't slow down for trends or what's not hip anymore. We just stay true to ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.