Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Hill Collins

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Patricia Briggs

Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

Pat Paulsen

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'

Pablo Neruda

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

Paula Deen

I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

Mary E. Pearson

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

Martin Sheen

Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.

Lauryn Hill

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

Lisa Kudrow

Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out

Johnny Depp

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

Johnny Depp

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.

Johnny Depp

I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.

John Trudell

When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless [. . .] and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people

James Lee Burke

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

James Russell Lowell

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

Lana Parrilla

I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.

Jon Ronson

Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!

Johnny Ramone

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You’ve got on a white coat. (Ephani) Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion)

Nicholson Baker

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

Nora Roberts

Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.

Nat King Cole

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Monica Lewinsky

I'm going to the White House to get my presidential kneepads.

Mike Melvill

It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of M&Ms in the cockpit. It was amazing . . . Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.

Mike McCurry

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

Mike McCurry

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

Peggy Noonan

What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition.

Marlon Wayans

I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

Marjane Satrapi

Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

Max Irons

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.