Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Butcher

Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

Jim Butcher

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

Jim Butcher

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

Jim Butcher

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

Jim Butcher

We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.

Jay Leno

The big story now is that President Bush is coming under attack for his service in the National Guard. The White House said, 'no no,' that they have payroll records to show that he served in the National Guard. But today, the commanding officers can't remember seeing Bush between May and October of '72. President Bush said, 'Remember me? I'm the drunk guy. Remember me?'

Jay Leno

John McCain said that Barack Obama is already measuring the drapes in the White House. That's what he said. I understand Sarah Palin is already driving McCain around to look at assisted living facilities.

Jay Leno

Well, Joe Biden has done it again. He showed up at the White House Passover Seder with a bunch of ham sandwiches.

Jay Leno

These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. People in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American. That's how bad it's gotten.

Carly Fiorina

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

Natalia Vodianova

I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

Nancy Pearcey

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

Julian Bond

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

Keith Richards

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

Katori Hall

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

Ishmael Reed

I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

Idris Elba

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth?

Geraldo Rivera

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

Harry S Truman

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

J. K. Rowling

Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.

J. K. Rowling

OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!” Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it was pointing right at a pure white ferret, which was shivering on the stone-flagged floor, exactly where Malfoy had been standing.

J. K. Rowling

Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles!” said Hermione. “We didn’t hear stories like that when we were little, we heard ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and ‘Cinderella’ —” “What’s that, an illness?” asked Ron.

J. K. Rowling

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

H. L. Mencken

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

H. L. Mencken

[Referring to FDR] If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday.

George Herbert

The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.

George Herbert

If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.

George Herbert

I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.

Jerry Buss

I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

Jerry Brown

A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.

Glenn Reynolds

But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

Ian MacKaye

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.