Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dinaw Mengestu

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Durado Brooks

The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference.

Aasif Mandvi

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

Toyin Odutola

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

Todrick Hall

Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now.

Erik King

Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

Erik Hersman

The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Eric Holder

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.

Kandyse McClure

The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one.

Nayvadius Cash

I gotta have my long trench coats, a nice scarf for the winter time when you're walking around, and some nice fitted jeans to go with the trench coats.

Steve Folkes

He's a good listener and he's fitted in really well.

Robert Hernandez

He should be certified any day now. He's already been fitted for a uniform.

John Dewey

To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness

John Dewey

To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure and opportunity to do it is the key to happiness

Shannon Noll

I saw it on the mannequin at the shop. It fitted straight away.

Trevor Horwell

The rooms are fitted out with state- of-the-art technology. From a music standpoint, it's going to be really cool.

Sadie Jones

My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

John Woo

He will be spending the holidays with the troops.

Richard Migliore

It has been kind of wearing on me. I got through the holidays OK but then it was like, 'OK, I want to get back to work.' Sure, it's frustrating but I have been through this before.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.

Gary Crane

Christina stepped up for us. She has been playing well throughout the holidays and has improved for us.

Elle King

I'm obsessed with trash TV. I love horrible TV. shows. It's the white trash in me, you know?

Jamie Campbell Bower

I'm a horrible romantic!

Charlie Munger

We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will.

Tom Wolfe

If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.

Tim Read

What a horrible way to go. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

Sean Bergenheim

We were horrible in the first two periods. We played a little better in the third. I know I had a horrible game.

Marcel Shipp

The red zone has just been horrible for us. It's been terrible. It's unacceptable as an offense because we have too many weapons and we're too talented not to get in the end zone.

Danielle Taylor

She has horrible rages over nothing. She needs help. She needs to talk to somebody.

Edgar Allan Poe

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Mark Lewis

We're so soaked in weddings and we have been for decades.

Carl Edwards

I think this is the most weddings I've ever had.

Tina Brown

Some weddings take longer to plan than others.

Bonnie Brothers

If you're into genealogy, read the newspaper. If I don't read anything else in the newspaper, I read the births, weddings and obituaries.