Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mae West

I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted.

Michael Haneke

The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German Fascism. It shows how people are prepared or indoctrinated for an ideology... people who are already in a state of repression who have been humiliated by society and who clasp at a straw that's offered to them. And how that's then developed into a form of indoctrination.

Menander

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Michael Jai White

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

Theodore Roosevelt

The White House is a bully pulpit.

Theodore L. Cuyler

For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by delay.

Thabo Mbeki

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

Terry McMillan

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

Margaret Halsey

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

Michael Owen

For me there's nothing better than putting the white shirt on for England and playing for England. I'd get worried if it wasn't like that.

Neal Shusterman

On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.

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.

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.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.