Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Friedgen

When they came in from warming up and they saw the black jerseys hanging in their lockers, they went nuts. But it's not the jerseys that win football games.

When they busted out the windows, there was black smoke shooting out through the top. It was just terrible.

When you see him on TV like when he was at Notre Dame, you think of him being a real straight-forward dude, real black and white, not too much flavor. But when you get to know him, see him around here on a day-to-day basis, he's real fun to be around.

When grilling, I like really good sirloin steak. I use three peppers: green, white, and black in a coarse grind. I press the pepper into the steak and just grill.

Liz Murray

I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.

Carine Roitfeld

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

Carine Roitfeld

Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.

Douglas Brinkley

While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.

This school is probably 98 percent black and Hispanic.

Joe Williams

We are kind of black and white. If you don't have the documentation, we are going to write you up.

We are just devastated by the loss and we will miss him greatly. The team got together and decided to dedicate the state tournament to John. We will be wearing black armbands on our uniforms in his honor. This is such a tragedy. He touched all our lives with his writing. He will definitely be missed.

I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it.

Alphonso Jackson

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

There are three kinds of people: White people, Colored people, and Black people.

Bob Wright

There is a very dark, black cloud in this game. It's not in the hands of kids who live next door to you; it's organised groups and organised crime.

We have a legacy to uphold: the people who died so that we could have the right to vote; the people who sacrificed so that we would one day realize the dream of a black president.

Warren Farrell

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

Dave Gahan

I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'

Luanne Rice

During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.

We don't have the genetic sequence yet but we hope to soon which should tell us if it is the same virus that we have seen in Turkey and in the region surrounding the Black Sea area, where we have seen a lot of outbreaks in the last six months.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don't love each other. That we don't fight for each other. That perception is so dangerous. We need positive images to counter the negative portrayals we see every day. And positive doesn't mean perfect. Perfect is boring.

Vincent Bugliosi

'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.

Billy Graham

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

Ada Leverson

Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

Ad Reinhardt

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

Alessandro Del Piero

No color will ever be brighter for me than black and white.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

Aldous Huxley

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

Gary Graham

We were kind of the black eye of the league because players weren't very disciplined, we weren't winning many games and nobody's cared much about Snider hockey.

We don't just live in a black and white world anymore. In recent decades, the color brown has become too racially charged for a responsible institution like Brown to use as its name.

We are no longer the black sheep on this issue. Europe is united on this. It shares the values that we have defended.

Paul Engle

Writing is like this-you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.

Aberjhani

'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.