Famous Quotes & Sayings

It helps us to maintain one of the things we are proud of -- reserves, ... Regardless of how many hurricanes hit us, and we were hit with several last year, we have managed to maintain our reserves. I think one of the things a city has to do is to maintain itself, not only operate in the black daily, but (remain) in the black when you hit your reserves.

Bruce Beresford

I have written a lot of films that didn't get made for one reason or another and I have one called The Women in Black that I hope will get made next year. And there were others that got made that I wrote under different names, I always think that better directors write the scripts because if you can't write, and you don't have anything to say, then what's the point of making films?

I just hope it doesn't rain too much. She's much better going two turns but this is a grade I and you've got to get the black type if you can.

Felipe Alou

I read something a few years back that said there were a few black players who didn't even know who Jackie Robinson was,

Being a Black American man, I don't think (public schools) taught me enough about my culture. Even today the textbooks are lacking.

Jeff Buckley

I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm.. this body will never keep me safe from harm.I still feel your hair.. black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole.If only you'd come back to me.To feel you at my side.. wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.

I'm originally from Ohio. We didn't worry about water or the texture of the soil, ... The first year we were here, I watered, watered, watered. The bushes were all in raised beds. I thought the water would drain away. When I pulled them out, the roots were black and the ground smelled sour.

I'm in the black now, but if there are cuts like this, I'll be in the red.

If Jose's not working, he wants to be with his family. Roman isn't very big on going to black tie dinners and things. He tends to hang around with people he's known since his twenties, and they tend to be his Russian friends.

If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched

If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today.

Samantha Mumba

If I wore a big, black sack it'd be boring.'

Tommie Smith

I had no regrets, I have no regrets, I will never have any regrets. We were there to stand up for human rights and to stand up for black Americans. We wanted to make them better in the United States.

Terrence Howard

I had a really rabid frustration that I could fully exist and not be a target from either side, whether it's from the black side or the white side.

I never knew how many little things went into someone's death: choosing the right black patent leather shoes for the little girls to wear; finding out what day someone's paycheck stops; seeing suits and shirts, still in their dry cleaning bags, hanging in a closet.

The financial tide finally turned to black in the spring of 2004 and has been on a winning streak ever since.

The first part of the civil war was really fought between white people. The second part of the civil war was the Civil Rights Movement, fought between blacks and the greater establishment.

John Franklin

The circumstances are remarkable when you stop to think about what you couldn't do in Raleigh and in Richmond. After 1831, they didn't want blacks to learn the ABCs. She put those boys in school,

Nate Parker

Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong. Gender, is very new to me. All I can say is this is something that I'm going to take hold of and pray about it.

Morgan Freeman

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Laverne Cox

Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.

Lisa Nicole Carson

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

Lisa Ling

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

Johnny Depp

Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.

John Sexton

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

John Sexton

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.

John Ridley

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

Larry Holmes

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

Alex Cox

And I also figured out that way I can do a film in black and white because I've never been able to do a film in black and white.

Winston Churchill

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

The guitar was hanging. It was an Eric Clapton signature model, the Martin guitar designed for Eric Clapton. It was black with lots of inlay on it.

Giovanni Bisignani

The industry will not see black ink until at least 2007.

Louis Farrakhan

The image of the black community is horrendous in the world. The image of black men in particular is that of a bestial, maniacal and savage group of persons.