Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

Alan Parker

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

Alan Moore

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

Mark Watson

When I was a kid, you put on a suit and tie, and the girls wore a black drape and that was the senior picture,

Albert Smith

When I was a kid, there were a lot more African-American farmers. It wasn't an uncommon thing to talk to a black farmer. Now, it's more of a shock. To me, it's getting to the place now where we're an endangered species.

Whoopi Goldberg

(Walker) told black women that they don't have to be less than they are capable of being. I try to uphold that standard.

Don Cheadle

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

Dexter Gordon

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

David Amram

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

Heather Boushey

Given that the Census doesn't seem to have a clear plan, and given that it's taken about seven years to develop a new survey historically, I don't see that it will take only two years to develop something better than we have now.

Kenneth Prewitt

It is ... a complicated, challenging task. But the alternative is to just ignore them -- is to say, 'Well, even though we didn't count them and we know they are part of the United States, since we don't know where to put them, we'll just sort of leave them off the census rolls. That strikes us as a social injustice.

John Laird

Given what happened to the Central Coast, it's hard to support the current system, but since the last census 3.6 million people have been added. And to turn over the most diverse state in the union to a panel of retired judges, which is a very undiverse group ... I'd support an independent commission, or an independent commission with legislative review, or some other kind of hybrid.

Orlando Rodriguez

Census 2000 did not do a good job with group quarters, but they have a major impact, particularly in small towns.

Chang-Rae Lee

We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests.

David Deaton

We've had as many as 69 (patients) or as little as 50. The census will fluctuate, just depending on what the needs are at the time.

Wayne Schwertner

It's very difficult to census turkeys. It's a nut we've been trying to crack for quite a while.

Paul Auster

I took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. In The Locked Room, the third volume of the New York Trilogy, there's a sequence where the narrator talks about working for the census, and I took this straight from life. As in the book, I wound up inventing people. Kind of curious.

Estelle Morris

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

Shavo Odadjian

We've all grown up not the same, but with very similar morals and values. We know how it is. We know not to talk about anyone's mother and sister.

Chris Fecera

We started small with one store in Birdsboro, which was probably a 5,000-square-foot garage, and it has just grown over the years.

Peter Horvath

We started small and have grown through this tremendous effort.

Regg Simon

We started out very solid back there, then got young real quick. Now our young guys have grown up. I like where we're at right now.

Eric Sims

With the merger of the three clubs, it has grown into something bigger. With the growth of HCU it is important that this tournament does do well.

Rick Comley

We're getting steady goaltending and we've grown up as a team. We're battle-tested.

Sharon Stone

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.

Sharon Stone

I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman.

Dorothy Allison

My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It was fun to write about these sisters who were supposed to hate each other but really don't.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Tom Romance

Kyle has a lot of tournament experience, but it has always been as an individual playing various tours. It's a little different going to a different school with teammates and on relatively different courses. He doesn't have many holes in his game.

George Clooney

What you learn after you're 40 is it's just about plugging up holes in the boat,

Verron Haynes

He was kind of off a little bit. His story had some holes and some leaks.

Pat Hurst

I saw after nine holes (Creamer) was 6 up. She's our rookie, and she was unbelievable.

Charles Braun

Some of the holes won't even be able to be viewed from the start up point.

Retief Goosen

Some of the holes are actually playing shorter than they did last year.

Tiger Woods

No. 7 is one of the narrowest holes on the course, if not the narrowest.

Ken Johnson

I was impressed with our depth. We didn't miss a beat. There's no big holes in (the lineup). That's the key for us.

Brett Bergman

I was so nervous. It seemed like the quickest nine holes I've ever played, it went so fast.

Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Dick Costolo

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

William Shakespeare

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Jeff Corbett

We've taken every measure possible to make sure that everything is random and fair.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Greg Zenerovitz

We had been preparing to open up with them so we could measure where we were at.

Kelly Redmond

There is a standard for measuring snow that you can't measure it more often than every six hours. Because the more often you measure it, the more you get.