Famous Quotes & Sayings

Homer

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

Eric Carmen

If I could take one thing back, it would be those white suits,

I don't think they've (the White House) ever had an NAIA team.

Hunter S. Thompson

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.

Hunter S. Thompson

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

Hunter S. Thompson

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

Howard Staunton

After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes

Howard Dean

Dealing with race is about educating white folks.

Howard Dean

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

Honore de Balzac

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

James Cromwell

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

James Broughton

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

Jamaica Kincaid

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

Jack White

Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys ... Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.

Jack White

I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.

Jack White

I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

Elton John

He [Ryan White] had a kind of angelic aura about him. And his family, too, it's like, they are going through all this suffering, and I'm living this "Life of Riley" and I'm complaining about everything, and they are living this horrific life and complaining about nothing.

Nate Berkus

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

Nate Berkus

They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

Nancy Reagan

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

Nancy Reagan

The White House belongs to all Americans. It's supposed to be something we're proud of.

Moon Bloodgood

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.

Miles Davis

As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.

Miles Davis

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

Margaret Walker

White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and git along, that's what.

Jose Antonio Vargas

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

Jordan Peele

Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.

Kenneth Grahame

Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.

Kathy Reichs

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Jo Coudert

Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.

Jimmy Carter

My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been access to the poorest and most destitute, forgotten, and suffering people on Earth. It's not possible for a President to actually know them.

Jimmy Carter

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.