Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Mencia

In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

Carlos Mencia

I was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

Carl Bernstein

All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

Carl Andre

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

Carl Andre

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

Agnes Smedley

New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.

Aaron Yoo

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

Aaron Tveit

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

Aasif Mandvi

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

Roger Sherman

We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

Billy Corgan

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

Mitch Landrieu

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

Nadine Gordimer

Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

Gunter Grass

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

Cassandra Clare

Clary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident. -Clary to Isabelle, pg.245-

Chris Hardwick

Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.

Gerry Spence

Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.

J. K. Rowling

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Aasif Mandvi

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

Brent Scowcroft

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Olympia Snowe

We are here today because we want to be responsible stewards of the surplus,

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.