Famous Quotes & Sayings

Issa Rae

I would love 'Awkward Black Girl' to be on television, with the right team of people who understand and get it. If 'Awkward Black Girl' could make it to HBO starring a dark-skinned black girl, that would be revolutionary.

Victor Flores

Let's call it a black eye. Black eyes look ugly for a bit, but they go away. Hopefully, a few lessons will have been learned.

James Oliver

Many people, blacks as well as whites, have some trouble having the story of slavery told in a major public venue, ... But we do not have the right not to tell the story.

James Allen

Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass the word on and also as a form of intimidation to people in surrounding black community.

O. Winston

Many times, black businesses are under-utilized or overlooked.

Patricia Harris

Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.

Curtis Preston

Security is a frustrating business. And the hardest thing to do is stop an internal black hat. The risk can't ever totally be eliminated -- it can only be minimized.

Lerone Bennett

Mr. Johnson changed the color of American media. Before Ebony, before Mr. Johnson, blacks were not seen in major media in this country. They were not pictured on the front pages; there were no black models, he created that foundation which is reverberating throughout the media today,

David Barry

Much of it is established by social and economic order, ... But on those levels, both black and white speakers share a close accent.

Robert Rainy

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Bret Tuetken

Like everyone else, they wanted to take Hope and Maria out of the game. I told the girls earlier today that someone is going to get open shots.

Omar Abdullah

Let them repeat what they have already told the prime minister in earlier meetings but they must show their presence.

Kevin Parker

Looks to me like we'll have to light it earlier than we thought.

Tracy Mullin

Many stores opened earlier than ever before and retailers offered unbelievable sales and discounts to get people shopping.

Jeffrey Grau

Online sales are growing at a healthy clip, even though sales may have pulled back somewhat from the robust pace seen earlier this year.

John Ryan

One time when I was working, earlier in the night we had been given notice by the UP to be on the lookout for a gentleman who was possibly stealing bikes. It was around 2:45 in the morning that we actually saw him. As soon as we went to radio it into base, the UP surrounded Epsilon (where we saw him at).

Richard Carmona

More teens are using marijuana at earlier ages, ... We really need to stop these trends.

Matthew Ashford

Now we go out to eat earlier - at 5 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. It's better that way, especially when you have little kids who want to run around.

Ross Lynch

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

Martin Jol

I did not even see it, I was watching Edgar Davids. The lad was going down then standing up and for me there's no problem.

Charles M. Schwab

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

Peter Hutton

(Jockey) Edgar (Prado) said she was sharpsharper than he expected her to be,

Ray LaHood

What I told Edgar is I would write him a big check, ... I didn't offer to give him all my money.

Rick Smolan

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

Alexandra Adornetto

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

Albert Pujols

Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.

Dan Wilson

To be one of 30 nominees is quite an honor, and to have Edgar win it last year and Jamie the year before makes it even more meaningful,

Josh Beckett

Let's talk about the outing. I felt pretty good today, let's start with that. I don't want to fill it up with stuff like that, negative stuff. Let's be positive here.

Joel Parkinson

Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Brian Billick

Last year, we felt we were a Super Bowl-caliber team. I think in just about every measure you can put out there, we're a better team than we were last year.

David Chase

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

Tim Churchill

Last year, we felt like we didn't have any winnable games.

Forel Davies

Last year was the first year I really felt comfortable with my game.

Brian James

Last year was really demanding. I just felt that at the end of the year I didn't have a lot of fire left in me.

Liz Gliem

Last year the pressure was on Jackie, but this year I felt a little more pressure on me. I had to take a little more of a leadership role.

Jeremy Bonderman

Last year went so fast. I felt like I was in and out of that game in like a matter of minutes.

Benjamin Franklin

Let the Letter stay for the Post, and not the Post for the Letter

Greg Strobel

Letters is antsy, but he's ready. He's been off quite a while and can't wait to mix it up with someone. He's a little nervous, too. It's been six weeks since a 'live' bout, so that's quite a mid-season break.

Rick Moody

My letters to Pat are apologies. I was the oldest. I should have been there for him.

Jimmy Kimmel

On Letterman and Leno, it always bothers me when they go outside the studio and it's daytime.

Elbert Hubbard

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Sam Thompson

I can tell you the letter was not received.

David Nicholls

This isn't a letter, it's a gift.

David Friedman

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

Martin Milner

I got letters from policemen thanking me for Adam-12.

Robert Hass

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.

Robert Hass

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

Tao Lin

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Charles Olson

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edgar Allan Poe

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Johnny Pesky

If I was a poet laureate, I couldn't find the words.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Charles Osgood

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

Roy Makaay

I have already spoken to him about Bayern.

Alain Wertheimer

I spoke to the 'Wine Spectator' because that's PR; that's how you sell wine.

Arne Glimcher

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Alison Bechdel

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

Sachin Tendulkar

I think I have already spoken a lot. Now it is time for me to play.

Nadine Gordimer

Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,

Matthew Cooper

Before I spoke to Mr. Rove I didn't know about Wilson having a wife. And he was the one who suggested to me that she worked at the agency,

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Dallas Roberts

Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

Edsger Dijkstra

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Annie Dillard

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Steve Gray

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've always loved being a student.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.

Gianluigi Buffon

For us, there is surely no other alternative. We have to win.

Rob Lowe

If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.

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And most surely they were with Us, of the elect, the best.