Famous Quotes & Sayings

GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. Bjorsen, who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight. Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesian mine. Basing our computations upon data supplied by these statements, we find that the gnomes were probably extinct as early as 1764.

If it had not been for black people, the government of the people, by the people and for the people would have perished from this earth.

Dana Torres

I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything's okay. My child is always on my mind.

There are older people who can no longer do it, but they still want the homemade blackberry jelly and canned figs. So I make sure to have some for them,

Pat Riley

When he came to the Lakers, Bob McAdoo told me how much the game meant, how it changed everything, how it opened up the world for black kids in the South. I guess I never really thought of it that way, that we were such a big part of history.

When they reach their 30s, six of every 10 black men who did not go to high school are in prison.

I tried to get a tan but I’m black already,

He was kind of bundled up. He was wearing a black leather hat, a big black jacket and grey pants.

Dusty Baker

He wasn't all black. It was black and white, so it doesn't mean nothing.

Tana Umaga

He was instrumental in building the All Blacks tradition. We're pleased for the chance to pay our respects

Lykke Li

I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes.

Rod Hundley

I was staying in a hotel on Canal Street, on the 16th floor, and I opened up the windows and it was just black outside,

I was rooting for him, one, because he's black and two, because he's from Chicago. I don't care if he was playing hockey or ice skating, I wanted him to outdo his competition.

Bill Bradley

I was stunned by the verdict. It shows that racial profiling seeps so deeply in our society that a wallet in the hand of a white man looks like a wallet, and the wallet in the hand of a black man looks like a gun.

I wouldn't have gotten as far I have if it wasn't for Martin Luther King. I am not viewed as just a black woman anymore, but as a working member of my community who has rights.

Julie Powell

I graduated from college with a major in fiction writing, and then I spent years and years and years just writing and not ever finishing anything and really falling into the black hole of self-loathing.

I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.

Larry Stevens

He was a pretty black-and-white guy when I hired him. I kept telling him things were not always black and white and he had to loosen up.

Louis Farrakhan

He had a very focused mission on the black people of America, the black people of the world, because our condition was so horrific from the years of slavery and injustice that we have experienced,

He has to expand the electorate, and that's a big hurdle. Blacks displaced by Katrina, these people are going to be horribly difficult to reach.

Marcel Desailly

He lost consciousness for 2 seconds, like he fell into a black hole. His eyes were wide open, but he had no idea where he was.

Chuck D.

He made the decision on who got the money. I take exception to you saying that all Mr. Black did was fill in the name. He made the decision.

Torii Hunter

He loved to talk to you. He helped the younger guys -- especially the younger black players.

He (McKie) is not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the All Blacks or pull out a winger that will put Rokocoko to shame. That's not his role. There is no quick fix,

Today, kids think that information is too much for them. We're telling the story that for a black person to make money, they have to be doing something illegal.

What do you call a black man flying a plane? A pilot you racist.

We've been waiting for the school to bring someone in to represent black history and we got it first hand.

Billie Holiday

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Whenever you talk about black people on the Net, the digital divide is the story. It's going to change. As the next wave of sites go live, it will shift from the digital divide to the digital opportunity.

Tom Rachman

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.

Aziz Ansari

Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

Ayn Rand

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

C. S. Lewis

I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.