Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

You can't hire blacks if there's not a pool of black recruits to choose from.

This place is decorated in black and gold.

This past week's strong sales numbers prove that Black Friday is not the tall tale sign it used to be as an indicator for holiday spending.

Brandon Boyd

This party is old and uninviting, participants all in black and white, you enter in full blown Technicolor

Michael Dyson

There was something about his demeanor that suggested blackness and that suggested, more specifically, stereotypical blackness.

There was one black cloud hanging over this win and that is the departure of Quantrill. He brought a lot more to the table than his throwing. He had been to where we hope to go. He was the epitome of a great teammate.

There wasn't a whole lot going on in the States for black actresses at the time. I didn't have a recording contract, and my daughters and I really liked the lifestyle we had.

There was certainly shopper excitement early on, but it wasn't sustained. Clearly their Black Friday strategy worked. But their holiday was modestly disappointing as they went on.

Walter Mosley

There was a whole black experience from the hippie movement. It's a whole new world.

Ed Koch

there was no limit to how high blacks could rise in my administration.

There was no discussion. It never came up. We hardly ever saw a black person.

Natalie Cole

There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.

There must be something in the Black Warrior River.

There'll also be black phoebes, and they'll get out the scopes and you'll see dowitchers, yellowlegs and maybe a white-tailed kite or two.

This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.

You sing in the black church and you sing from 10 in the morning to 10 at night. And you've got to be in great shape because you're singing and jumping and clapping and carrying on all at the same time.

Larry Conley

You should see us with all of our players. We had to leave our black players at home.

You're accelerating, so you have that torque on the rear end, and as soon as you hit that black ice, it will spin you around in nothing flat. The problem is, you got the guy coming down in the truck.

This is campaign stuff, ... This is people getting ready to run a campaign and trying to give me another black eye.

Steve Allen

This is an important step in understanding how such jets can be launched from magnetized disks of gas near the event horizon of a black hole. Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.

This is another black eye, another slap in the face of the black community.

This is a terrific opportunity to shine a spotlight on important issues surrounding Black Hills National Forest, including forest health and wildfire prevention. Ensuring appropriate forest policy is essential not only to preserving South Dakota's wonderful natural resources, but to our tourism and economy as well.

This is a terrible situation and we need to have compassion. The truth is Black people died not because of President Bush or racism, they died because of their unhealthy dependence on the government and the incompetence of Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Kathleen Blanco,

This is the government making your TV go black and then only paying part of the costs for some of the people to make it work again, and none of the costs for others.

This is the first time I've heard (O'Connell) say the gap is huge and that we're serving our white kids well, but we have a long way to go with black and brown children.

Janelle Monae

The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.

Janelle Monae

I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.

Ernest Cline

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

Cassandra Clare

She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.

Caroline Knapp

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

Carly Simon

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

Fred Savage

I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.