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.

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.

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.

Stephen Harper

We know we've run a good campaign. We've run the campaign we wanted to run and got our message out.

Ibrahim Hooper

We know how to deal with these things in a positive way. We're opening an education campaign on the life and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.

Dmitry Medvedev

Climate change is "some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects."

Pam Brown

Unsolicited donations have doubled since the campaign started.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Jan Egeland

We stand by the report. The eviction campaign was the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. ... The important thing now is to look to the future. We have to help these people.

Jean Chretien

We spoke in this campaign about preserving social programs and Medicare and that we will do,

Mike DeWine

We're not going to talk about campaign tactics,

Ben Bradlee

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

Darrell Nichols

We know for a fact that several of the people staying at the motel were habitual burglars.

Michael Bennett

Wait just a minute. They didn't keep us out of the end zone. I was tackled in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter. Get your facts straight, or get a job working for the New York Times .

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

John Burness

There are some folks who want us to do a full investigation ourselves. But the fact of the matter is this is a police investigation, and we can't impede it. The more information we have, if the allegations are true, there will be grave consequences.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Mickey Arthur

We are going to include some of the players who have done well in the local series.

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Luis Aragones

But all the players who have not been included know that they can return to the side if they prove themselves on the pitch.

Tara VanDerveer

Ideally, I'd like to have an eight-or-nine player rotation, and I'd like to include another perimeter contributor.

Julian Fellowes

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.

Cherie Blair

If we're going to truly solve the problems of the world, we've got to share our information whenever we can and strategically include one another in or efforts.

Brian Young

If we included this in the price of our room, it could put us at a competitive disadvantage.

Debbie Ford

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.

Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Vickie Simmons

We are proud we can give teachers the kind of salary we do.

Justin Glover

We are proud of the improvements that we have made since 2004. We are going to keep striving to do better.

Stefan Pryor

We are proud of the effectiveness of our procedures.

Chad Bankston

We still, obviously, have a lot of work to do, but I'm proud of them.

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Ed Harris

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Yet how proud we are, In daring to look down upon ourselves!