Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laila Ali

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

Mark Twain

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

Neil Peart

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Dorothy Young

She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Richard Menicke

I had intended to race three in the varsity race.

Courtney Pratt

If other people see it differently, they'll see it the way they want to see it, but that's not what it's intended to do.

Edgar Ramirez

I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

Carlos Mencia

Great soul of Gandhi, cover your ears. You will not want to hear this! Listen, you inbred piece of Ku Klux Krap! You white people love to be racist, but the only races you can tell apart are Indianapolis and Daytona. I hope I am reincarnated as toothpaste, so I never have to see you again. Now take your twelve-pack of wife-beating juice and get the park out of my store!

C. S. Lewis

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

Agnes Repplier

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Charles Edward Merriam

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

Anna Held

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

Branch Rickey

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

Diane Wakoski

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

Dianne Feinstein

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.