Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benny Goodman

It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.

Cheech Marin

Rich white guys. That's the true minority.

Charlie Siem

I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.

Charles Krauthammer

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House?

Aime Cesaire

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Bill O'Reilly

The white establishment is now the minority,

Benjamin Watson

I'M INTROSPECTIVE, because sometimes I want to take "our" side without looking at the facts in situations like these. Sometimes I feel like it's us against them. Sometimes I'm just as prejudiced as people I point fingers at. And that's not right. How can I look at white skin and make assumptions but not want assumptions made about me? That's not right.

Cecily Strong

Your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police.

Carlos Mencia

When white people eat potato chips, they're called white people. When black people eat potato chips, they're called niggas.

We have to get these to the White House.

Agnes Varda

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

Caryl Churchill

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

Billy Packer

It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.

I like the A's best, but I like the White Sox and Angels,

I'm surprised, particularly at how well the whites showed: crisp and summery.

Woody Harrelson

It's very intimidating, ... The white gloves. . . .

Don Cornelius

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Don Cooper

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.

Don Cooper

With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.

Duke Ellington

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

Donald Rumsfeld

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

Ira Levin

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.

Jack Kerouac

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

J. C. Watts

You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

Greg Gutfeld

Eric Holder sees everything through the prism of race. He keeps that mustache because shaving cream is white.

Graeme Murphy

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

Glenn Ford

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.

Gwen Ifill

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

Gwendolyn Brooks

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

Bernie Sanders

Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better and better among younger people, not so well among older people, whether they're African-American, whether they're white or whether they're Latino.

Kathleen Hanna

There are more people who are not straight, white males going to shows.