Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherman Alexie

Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.

Scott Steiner

DDP, when I look at you, I see white trash! When I look at the people in the crowd, I see white trash. So maybe you are the people's champion!

Marla Gibbs

I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!

Mae West

I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted.

Michael Haneke

The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German Fascism. It shows how people are prepared or indoctrinated for an ideology... people who are already in a state of repression who have been humiliated by society and who clasp at a straw that's offered to them. And how that's then developed into a form of indoctrination.

Menander

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Michael Jai White

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

Mike Melvill

It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of M&Ms in the cockpit. It was amazing . . . Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.

Mike McCurry

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

Mike McCurry

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

John Ruskin

All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

Nina Arianda

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

Theodore Roosevelt

The White House is a bully pulpit.

Theodore L. Cuyler

For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by delay.

Thabo Mbeki

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

Terry McMillan

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

Margaret Halsey

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

Michael Owen

For me there's nothing better than putting the white shirt on for England and playing for England. I'd get worried if it wasn't like that.

Michael Emerson

It was an all-white church. It was starting to decline. They had to hire a new pastor, and they hired him. But he came under the condition that "I want and I'm called to make this a multiethnic church." So they knew. He's interesting because he's part-Asian, part-white. He's married to a Hispanic woman, so that's their family and that's their vision.

Michael Emerson

Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough."

Michael Emerson

It's one of the things we find in these congregations is that they are much more likely to be sort of up-beat worship styles, more likely that people in these congregations say "Amen," maybe get up and dance some, tend to be a little bit more lively than a typical white service would be, but not as lively as a typical black service would be.

Michael Emerson

Once in a while you get people that maybe because of economic reasons, or have a social network, they get attracted. But it's a very tiny percent so that when we look at, you know, who are pastors and who are the head clergy of these congregations, they're overwhelmingly white, just a few African Americans, and those folks are usually called to what were formerly white congregations, or they started interracial church from the get-go.

Lev Grossman

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

Larry Wall

Even the White House has a press agent.

Paul Schrader

Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

Paul Mooney

What does America love more than one white male?

Paul Mooney

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

Paul Mooney

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

Paul Mooney

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

Patricia McConnell

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

Oscar Wilde

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

Sister Souljah

If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?

Sister Souljah

So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?