Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Sarah Silverman

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

Sara Blakely

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

William Howard Taft

He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.

Will Smith

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!

Will Smith

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

Vladimir Lenin

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

Rob Brown

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

Rebecca West

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Richard M. Nixon

Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

Wallace Stevens

Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.

Ursula K. Le Guin

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

Saul Alinsky

History is a relay of revolutions.

William Randolph Hearst

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

Veronica Roth

I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

Ian Paisley

The gloves are off. We're taking no more nonsense from anybody.

Joseph Stalin

No revolution can be made with silk gloves.

John Turner

Prior to the chair, (detention officers) would have to put on rubber gloves and go into (the inmates') bodies.

Paul Bliss

We give them gloves and put them right in there. We don't pull any punches.

Robert Buchanan

There's no question that Wal-Mart is 'taking the gloves off' on price heading into the holiday,

Tim McCarver

Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.

Dick DeGuerin

Now we can really take the gloves off.

Jimmy Rollins

I had two good swings there. That's part of baseball. You don't get rewarded for good swings all the time. You have guys there with gloves and that's what they're paid to do is get you out.