Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nicholls

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

Suzan-Lori Parks

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

Diana Quick

I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis might have played. What I wouldn't like is to suddenly find myself being cast, as many senior actresses seem to be, as the abbess in a convent.

Vesta Williams

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

Val Guest

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

Imelda May

I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

Scott Bakula

Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.

Henry Fonda

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

Robin Leach

If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.

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.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Pat Roberts

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Thomas Nelson Page

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.