Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sinclair Lewis

Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.

Smokey Robinson

Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was.

Smokey Robinson

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

Mekhi Phifer

The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.

Joe Slovo

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

Jodi Picoult

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

John Grisham

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

P. G. Wodehouse

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

Ovid

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black. [Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne, Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]

Ovid

A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

I don't think they've (the White House) ever had an NAIA team.

I'm surprised, particularly at how well the whites showed: crisp and summery.

I like the A's best, but I like the White Sox and Angels,

Darrell Royal

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

Danica McKellar

I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

Condoleezza Rice

I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon.

Condoleezza Rice

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

Jack Kerouac

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

J. C. Watts

You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

Fred F. Fielding

It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.

Fred Astaire

I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

Ira Levin

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.

Greg Gutfeld

Eric Holder sees everything through the prism of race. He keeps that mustache because shaving cream is white.

Graeme Murphy

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

Glenn Ford

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.

Gwen Ifill

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

Gwendolyn Brooks

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

Danny Kaye

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

Addie did nothing different than her white counterparts have been doing for years.

George Herbert

The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.

George Herbert

If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.

George Herbert

I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.

Jerry Buss

I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.