Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

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

Nora Ephron

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

Monique Coleman

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

Oscar Wilde

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Lucille Clifton

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

Michael Rooker

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

Victor Flores

Let's call it a black eye. Black eyes look ugly for a bit, but they go away. Hopefully, a few lessons will have been learned.

James Allen

Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass the word on and also as a form of intimidation to people in surrounding black community.

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.

George Santayana

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

George Jean Nathan

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

Adam Rayner

That's the great thing about university: you've got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school.

Maria Callas

My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.

Kathy Bates

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

Matt Damon

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

Nicholas Braun

I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me; I dont know why! There were only 330 kids in my high school, though, so it wasnt a lot of kids to impress or reign over.

Paul Schrader

Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that's character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that's even more character.

Kaya Scodelario

When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because they would see that I hadn't been to drama school and wouldn't want to see me. Now, I feel like it's changing. We have this new generation of a lot of writers, directors and actors who are just breaking through, and they're doing it for the passion.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Author unknown

The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

Daniel Barenboim

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Cynthia Heimel

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.

Ann Landers

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Abraham Lincoln

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Abraham Lincoln

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Henry Ian Cusick

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

Alberto Moravia

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

Linda Chavez

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Kevin Hart

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

Kelly Osbourne

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Lennox Lewis

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

Karl Popper

no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

Paul Lynde

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.

George MacDonald

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

John Crowe Ransom

Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries

Joel Osteen

For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.