Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Parker

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

Alan Moore

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

Chinua Achebe

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

David Hockney

Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

Benicio Del Toro

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Benicio Del Toro

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

Barnett Newman

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

August Wilson

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Audre Lorde

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

Charles Stuart Calverley

I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

Charles Spurgeon

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

Alan Moore

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

Alan Jackson

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Alan Beck

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!

Alan Cooper

Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.

Alan Bennett

Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life. Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

Al Pacino

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

Al Pacino

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

M. Night Shyamalan

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

John Hughes

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

Amy Heckerling

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

Neil Flynn

I wouldn't say I'm a fan of Tarantino, per se, but I like several of his movies very much, probably 'Reservoir Dogs' the most of them.

Annalee Newitz

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

Kent Beck

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

Tony Scott

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Chico Hamilton

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Edmond Rostand

All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.

Eddie Huang

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

David Hume

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

David Duke

I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote.