Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucretia Mott

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Medgar Evers

Our only hope is to control the vote.

John Gates

When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

Michael Scott

When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.

Robert Strauss

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Robert Strauss

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

George Jackson

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

Earl Browder

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

Earl Browder

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

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.

Chinua Achebe

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

Dave Barry

That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.

Dave Barry

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

Carter G. Woodson

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

C. L. R. James

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Leslie Robinson

We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

Bryan Singer

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

Bob Huggins

The only reason he came back (for his senior year) is because he wanted to spend another year with his teammates and win a national championship. That was the No. 1 goal in his mind. When I walked out on the floor, that was the first thing he said.

Mickey Hatcher

The one thing you have to do is always play the game hard and people will love you. And every day, whether it was practice or on the field, he set the tone for the organization. When every young kid came up, they could see him playing hard and I think it was really an inspiration for that organization. He got them two championships. He was a great leader.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Jim Owens

The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.

Charles Stanley

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

Al Roker

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.

Chris Bosh

I never expected to leave college early-especially after just one year.

Chris Bosh

You think you're grown in college but you're not, because everything is kind of controlled. You lose the camaraderie and suddenly find yourself alone in an apartment just feeling lost.

David Selby

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

David McCullough

Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.

David Knopfler

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

David Krumholtz

We essentially spent our college years together [with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg], so those were the kind of lasting friendships and the bond you form during those years, and those friendships last a really long time.

David Talbot

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

Charles Prince

We are going to shift the mix strongly to international.

Curt Miller

We were too perimeter-oriented. Toledo played a mixture of defenses and they really had us on our heels. We were just settling for 3s.

Billy Wilder

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

Blake Michael

I've always had a fascination about mixing music,

Blake Michael

Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

Tom Chiappetta

When you put that mix together, we got our own little world here.

Elizabeth Hurley

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

Arthur Helps

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Gia Coppola

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.

C. L. R. James

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Bryan Clay

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Bob Harper

CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.

Harry Shum, Jr.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

Arundhati Roy

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Irfan Pathan

The pitch had a lot of moisture on it. There was a lot of movement off the wicket, more than there was in the air.

Matt Cookson

We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in.

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.

David Liu

This is a breakthrough year because of the variety of deals.

Francis Bacon

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.