Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Howard Taft

He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.

Will Smith

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!

Will Smith

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

Vladimir Lenin

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

Walter Annenberg

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

Wentworth Miller

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

Salmon P. Chase

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

Wesley Snipes

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood,

William Cowper

Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.

Wayne McGregor

I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short five minutes became our keystone to unlocking a strangely seductive score that tensions the aggressive force of the White Stripes with the enigmatic beauty of Talbot's own compositions.

Tove Jansson

Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. If you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and if you're looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones.

Tyler, The Creator

The devil doesn't wear prada; I'm clearly in a -- white tee.

Tyra Banks

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

William Golding

the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

William Bartram

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

Stephenie Meyer

It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.

Sophie Kinsella

There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them.

Thomas Pynchon

MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents.

Tim Wise

You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with; doing so is the first obligation of a white antiracist.

Victoria Jackson

There's a communist living in the White House!

Jennifer Chiaverini

What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective. From that moment, my interest in their remarkable friendship was captivated, and it never really waned.

Jeff Greenfield

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Jean Shepherd

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

Jean Rhys

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

Jeff Landry

Until the president produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

Jeff Landry

I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

Jill Abramson

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.

Jesse Jackson

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Jesse Jackson

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

Jesse Jackson

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

Jesse Jackson

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

Jennifer Morrison

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.