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.

John Brain

We have named our team based on our pre-season friendlies and feel that it is a strong line up to take on Gloucester,

Stephen Holmes

We have moved to begin the process of revoking the probation based on the seriousness of the underlying crime that placed him on probation. It will be up to a judge to decide what sanctions should be imposed.

Rodney Hendrix

What the state gives us is based on what the federal grant amounts are.

Chris Foster

When you run for SORF, you have to pledge that you won't judge a club's virtue based on their application. Our guidelines are all about being objective.

Elmore Lockley

We want people to keep in touch with us if they're having problems. We can put people on the budget plan, or special payment method which is very individualized and based on a customer's individual situation.

James McCormack

We were always skeptical about how fast consumer recovery (would) be. It had been pretty slow. This year, we've revised our growth forecast for the Korean economy to 5 percent based on strong fourth-quarter numbers that we saw, particularly in consumption. The export sector still looks positive." ()

Agin Muhammad

We have people who are based in their emotions and so they're hurt. It doesn't hurt me, a fool doesn't hurt me. As far as I'm concerned, me personally, it's like it never happened.

Phil Brown

We've signed him on a monthly contract and it will be based on his fitness levels.

Brian Barnhart

We have revised our testing policy from earlier in the off-season based on the commitment from Honda to serve as the league's single-engine supplier. This testing format brings more efficiency to the teams, Honda and the league as we ready ourselves for the 2006 season, the league's first featuring its compacted schedule.

Said Musa

Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

Charles Rangel

Many of the undocumented immigrants from the Caribbean islands have been living, working and making vital contributions to our country for many years.

Peter Piot

Now we have Kenya, several of the Caribbean countries and Zimbabwe with a decline.

Richard Kaplan

I have connected with the Caribbean community, but I would like to think that I've connected with all other communities in this city.

Steven Thompson

One of our concerns about playing in the southern Caribbean is the quality of the playing surface. However, I have played at that stadium before and at that time the surface was exceptional. At the end of the day our focus has to be on what we do between the white lines on game day.

Chris Hadfield

When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.

Brian Major

We're trying to get the word out. Together with the Caribbean Tourism Organization, we're notifying travel agents.

Bob Greene

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

Peter Abrahams

In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.

Joe Girardi

We have to get one of our center fielders going. They are young, and it's a tough game, but we have to get them going.

Dee Price

We have to follow that project. That has to be done before the community center gets done.

Dave Hilliard

We have to finish. We missed a breakaway, we had two center shots and we had one that hit the post. If we make those, the game is over.

Chuck D.

We have no intention of returning to the Pepsi Center. And we've told the Pepsi Center people that.

Paul Bauer

We have never been 5-0. One thing I can say about this team is we have been in some close games, but find a way to win. I am real proud of the kids tonight because we played without (senior running back Nate) Robinson for most of the fourth quarter. A lot of our offense centers around him, but the kids stepped up.

Tim Taylor

When he gets going, he?s extremely powerful. He loves physical contact. He?s strong on his feet, has a low center of gravity and accelerates into hits with his knees bent.

Mike Curtis

We were trailing by 13 points when our center Brook Crane went down with an elbow injury. We rallied and got to within three points, 26-23, before we were forced to foul and they made their shots.

Andy Rooney

We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week, but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

Abdallah II of Jordan

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Jeffrey Williams

We have salvageable patients we are going to lose because we can't get these people out of here. They are human beings, after all.

Elias Canetti

We have no standard any more for anything, ever since human life is no longer the standard.

John Salmons

When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

John Cassavetes

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Elif Safak

We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

Elena Anaya

I can hypnotize rabbits.

Daniel Petrocelli

We don't have to go down that rabbit trail.

Two Chainz

Then I put a fat rabbit on a Craftmatic!

Susanna Moore

When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.

Doug Graham

Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"

A. A. Milne

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

A. A. Milne

Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” "Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.

Lorraine Corriveau

Rabbits make wonderful pets, but they are a 10-year commitment. Like any other pet, they require attention.

Alan Keyes

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Chinua Achebe

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

C. L. R. James

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

Charles Guggenheim

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

Daymond John

Money is a great slave but a horrible master.

Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

Sam Reed

We were supposed to get it the first of December.

Mike Radke

We wrestled very well. We weren't outstanding. We just wrestled like we're supposed to wrestle.

E. Hicks

She was able to make some shots. That's what she is supposed to do.

Mike Landry

She's a player. You watch her play and you say, 'That's how the game's supposed to be played.

Robert Wilson

I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.

Jennifer Shoaf

We've surprised a lot of people. We've even surprised us. We weren't supposed to be here.

Al Michaels

But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.

Chris Harris

I feel like I'm supposed to be here.

Pat Bennett

One never did anything without talking to the other first. That is the way it is supposed to be.

Devon Sawa

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

David McCullough

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

Catherine Deneuve

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Alan Rickman

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

Alan Jay Lerner

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Chadwick

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

Al Pacino

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

Akira Kurosawa

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Chita Rivera

Theatre is immediate gratification

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.

Agnes Repplier

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

David Rakoff

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Jamie Redknapp

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

Bruce Catton

Early youth is a baffling time

Baz Luhrmann

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

Charles Fourier

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Dean Koontz

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

Elizabeth Strout

No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

Chris Evans

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.