Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Russell Peters

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

Russell Simmons

I ask everyone - white Hollywood and black Hollywood - to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That's where they're going to learn from each other, and that's where they're going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place.

Russell Simmons

But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.

Ronald Reagan

I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Ronald Reagan

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

Ron Paul

What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?

Rosa Parks

I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Rosa Parks

I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.

Rosa Parks

Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.

Roger Zelazny

Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.

Susan Rice

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

Stuart Rothenberg

Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.

Stokely Carmichael

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

Stokely Carmichael

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

Stephen Sondheim

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

Peabo Bryson

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Peter Sagal

Hillary Clinton, told a reporter that she and Bill aren't truly well-off, even though they're incredibly rich because they pay income taxes like everybody else. In fact, she says, they were so poor when they left the White House, they could hardly afford Bill's website memberships.

Peter Paul Rubens

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

Peter Coyote

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

Pete Rose

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

Pitbull

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

Ted Hughes

Where white is black and black is white, I won.

Tecumseh

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.

Randall Robinson

I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.

Randall Kennedy

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

Scott McClellan

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.