Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been access to the poorest and most destitute, forgotten, and suffering people on Earth. It's not possible for a President to actually know them.

Jimmy Carter

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

John Cage

The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.

James McBride

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

Emily Dickinson

Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?

And I don't like the White Sox, so that helps.

Hedy Lamarr

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

Hazel Scott

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Henry Ward Beecher

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

Helen Thomas

I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.

Helen Thomas

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

Helena Bonham Carter

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

Helen Fielding

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

Gustave Flaubert

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

John Masefield

My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.

John Banville

The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.

Sarah Palin

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

Banksy

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

Adrienne Rich

I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ... vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other 'exotic' ways of understanding.

Adam McKay

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

Daniel Tosh

Racing does to white guys what movies do to black guys.

Daniel Tosh

Being a white boxer is like being a republican. No matter how hard you work, you'll always lose because of the Mexicans.

David Letterman

They're doing everything they can to tighten security at the White House. Today, on the roof of the White House, they added one of those fake owls.

David Letterman

At the White House, they caught another fence jumper earlier today. It was Obama trying to get out.

David Letterman

According to the recent polls, Bush has a slight lead over John Kerry. So today, Bush hung a banner over the White House saying, 'Mission Accomplished.'

David Letterman

Since 1980, there have been 91 breaches of security at the White House. Well, 92 if you count George Bush.

David Letterman

Mitt Romney is doing what he can. He's trying very hard. He wants to unite America, the rich with the wealthy, the poor with the indigent, and the white with the Caucasian.

David Letterman

George W. said he doesn't watch television. And, of course, well - the reason for that is the Clintons stole the White House satellite system.

Cornel West

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?