Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm X

I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words

You've got three generations of truck-buying families here with Ford blue ovals tattooed on their foreheads.

All that blue was out on the field,

Steve Scott

All of a sudden just out of nowhere, this big blue streak jumps up onto the table and goes flying by me, and I looked up, and it was Antonio Davis jumping up on the table and jumping by. And it scared the heck out of me.

The driver (of the pickup) just kept going. He was in a Ford Ranger, kind of a blue color, and kind of high for a Ranger.

This is a collaboration never before seen that enables us to put a bold imprint on the launch of THE BLUES BROTHERS DVD and we are incredibly excited to be the first national edition of Hollywood Master Storytellers.

The horse is waking up at just the right time. When he got to the quarter pole, I thought, 'Son of a gun, I'm going to win the Blue Grass.

Otis Taylor

The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music of the folks. Blues is folk music.

You don't have to have an animal, or be in 4-H or FFA, to exhibit at the fair. With an Exhibitor Handbook and a nominal entry fee as low as 75 cents in some categories, everyone has a chance at taking home a blue ribbon.

George Foreman

I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.

Jon Foreman

Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

Johnny Winter

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland

John Cleese

It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

You could only see her eyes. She has big blue eyes, and all you could see were those big blue eyes sticking out.

You can weigh the different strategies until you're blue in the face, but the bottom line is who has the branding and who has the name power. Ultimately that's what's going to win the show.

You can walk over here by the River Club any day of the week and see half a dozen blue herons.

You have to represent the blue and orange with pride, and dignity, and class, and I think they are responding to that, and I'm very proud about that.

Patty Griffin

I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.

Ryan Clark

It'll be good to get Blue back. You could say he has a burr on, because he missed the first playoff game. Shawn likes to be the reason that we win, and since he didn't get to play, he can't take that claim.

Nomar Garciaparra

It just shows that they respect what I did when I was there and that's nice. I've always appreciated the fans in Boston. When I was signing autographs, I just reminded them to make sure they visit the gift shop and pick up something in a nice blue color.

It's guaranteed to turn your lawn silver and black, but every once in a blue moon you'll see moss on the grass.

Ted Forrest

This isn't blue sky speculation. We're actually doing something with this. It's top of mind with everybody.

Ellen Tauscher

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

Sylvia Plath

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.

Stan Freberg

The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

Stephen Colbert

News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point to communist societies like the Soviet Union - they worshipped blue jeans.

Stephen Colbert

Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is just another example of the homometerological agenda.

Sophie Kinsella

I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak!

William Morris Hunt

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

William James

I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

Sara Blakely

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

Vance Packard

As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to see blue skies... What was needed was strategies that would make Americans in large numbers into voracious, wasteful, compulsive consumers-and strategies that would provide products assuring such wastefulness. Even where wastefulness was not involved, additional strategies were needed that would induce the public to consume at ever-higher levels.

Robert Redford

If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.