Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Sidney Blumenthal

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

Shel Silverstein

Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb May look wrinkled and wet And withered, and white as the snow, But the taste of a thumb Is the sweetest taste yet (As only we thumb-sucker's know).

Tony Benn

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

Simone Elkeles

Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.

Tony Kushner

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

Tony Campolo

Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.

Spike Lee

Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

Rick Riordan

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.

Richard Brautigan

the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.

Robert Agostinelli

The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.

Ringo Starr

The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

Tiger Woods

I don't see myself as the Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.

Red Buttons

Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner!

Toni Morrison

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

Toni Morrison

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

Tom Tancredo

People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House,

Vernon Jordan

What I know about this world is white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

Robert Frost

He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

Robert Boswell

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

Rita Mae Brown

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

Richard Matheson

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

Richard E. Byrd

I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation.

Thomas Hood

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

Rupert Everett

There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond.

Tom Peters

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

Tom Robbins

You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

Tom Ford

One of the most important things is to figure out what your look is — I don't wear this black suit-white shirt combination all the time to try and be iconic — but because I'm most comfortable in this. Cary Grant never turned up in a pink jacket and hot pants and I don't feel the need to experiment when I know I like dressing this way.

Todd English

My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.

Steve Landes

We're not like some of those 'Elvis' guys you see in the grocery store, buying their stuff while dressed in a white jump suit, that sort of thing. We love doing what we do, we appreciate and respect our audiences, we have a true love of The Beatles.

Stephanie Cutter

If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.

Vanilla Ice

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

Tarsem Singh

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.