At some schools black applicants are more than 100 times more likely to be admitted than whites with the same GPAs and SATs. — Robert E. Lerner Copy Share Image
When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials. — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of… — Amy Robach Copy Share Image
Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Maybe the perceived fact that smart, rich parents tended to have smart, rich kids was largely due to the fact that they… — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We didn't have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know… — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance… — Ari Shapiro Copy Share Image
I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in. — Ray Conniff Copy Share Image
As kids, we always sat at the table with my parents and grandparents, and they would tell stories. We were very poor,… — Willie Robertson Copy Share Image
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Then there was the time in Hollywood when I sat down in a breakaway chair and it collapsed on me. I was… — Jack Paar Copy Share Image
When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image