Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Benny

I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

J. Cole

I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

J. B. Smoove

I should be European. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

J. C. Ryle

By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, and makes us long for heaven.

Harriet Tubman

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.

Harry Belafonte

There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master to exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. That gave you privilege. Colin Powell is permitted to come into the house of the master, as long as he will serve the master according to the master's dictates. Now, when Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

Harry Belafonte

When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom.

Hannibal Buress

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines.

Hannah More

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

Hannah More

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

Guy Maddin

Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies.

Greg Chappell

I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly

Greg Erwin

... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes of slavery, segregation, colonialism and genocide; piss me off and I'll add fascism and the Nazis.

Greg Gutfeld

I've always wondered, how did Hitler get away with so much for so long?

Ginni Rometty

We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM'ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.

Ginny Brown-Waite

The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

Ginger Rogers

I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.

Gerry Schwartz

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Georges Simenon

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

Harry Callahan

Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.

Harold MacMillan

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I was very much a tomboy for a long time, but as I start to get older, I realize I better actually try to preserve what I have and I better be a little conscientious about my regime.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

Gregor Mendel

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

I no longer talk to you and you must never phone me again.

I'll tell you what, this was probably the longest week of my career.

Bill Kennedy

But the status quo is no longer acceptable,

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't require that the main guest [of StarTalk] have any science knowledge or background at all. It's just, I have a conversation with them, it's long and winding, and we find out what parts of what we learn about the person lend themselves to further scientific discussion with an expert who is brought into the studio. So that's how that comes together.

Neil Gaiman

Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while

Neil Gaiman

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

Neil Gaiman

She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.