Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Brautigan

the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.

Robert Agostinelli

The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.

Ringo Starr

The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

Tiger Woods

I don't see myself as the Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.

Rahm Emanuel

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

Rahm Emanuel

[Obama White House] rescued the economy from the worst recession.

Lennox Lewis

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

Lenny Kravitz

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

Lenny Kravitz

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

Lee Hazlewood

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

Terry Pratchett

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

Scott McClellan

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

Scott McClellan

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Scarlett Johansson

I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.

Shunryu Suzuki

If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.

Shirley Chisholm

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

Lesley Nicol

Ive been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.

Laura San Giacomo

There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.

Marco Rubio

Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.

Peabo Bryson

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Peter Sagal

Hillary Clinton, told a reporter that she and Bill aren't truly well-off, even though they're incredibly rich because they pay income taxes like everybody else. In fact, she says, they were so poor when they left the White House, they could hardly afford Bill's website memberships.

Peter Paul Rubens

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

Peter Coyote

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

Pete Rose

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

Pitbull

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

Joss Stone

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

Kevin Hart

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

Kevin Hart

Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

James Baker

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Henry Bessemer

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery

Helmut Newton

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.