Top 1200 White-Collar Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Rule Number One for working for a white lady, Minny: it is nobody’s business. You keep your nose out of your White Lady’s problems, you don’t go crying to her with yours—you can’t pay the light bill? Your feet are too sore? Remember one thing: white people are not your friends. They don’t want to hear about it. And when Miss White Lady catches her man with the lady next door, you keep out of it, you hear me?

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

We were from a predominantly white area, my dad was black and my mum was white, so that had its complications.

Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

Here's a helpful life tip. Stand by things that are white cuz it makes you look less white.

I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.

When I speak of diversity, I don't mean replacement of white comics. I don't mean acceptance by white comics. We comics who weren't born into the white guy paradigm of 'funny' don't need a handout. We don't need a PC push. We don't need 'a look.'

I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.

I quite like walking out in my sweet new Balor Club jacket, popping my collar and being Mr. Cool.

The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are proud to be called blue collar.

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

A white nationalist would claim that flying the confederate flag on a state building is an expression of cultural history, rather than racial sentiment. A white nationalist would claim, as the television host Megyn Kelly once did on Fox News, that Jesus was white, and, by implication, God, too.

If you're White then yes, you have White privilege. It's there for the taking if you choose to use it, you know, just keeping it 100.

I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he likes to have fun.

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.

I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.

Ever crack an egg into simmering water only to watch the white spread out and form wispy tentacles? It happened to me until I came across this game-changing fix: Break the egg into a sieve set over a bowl. The watery outer edge of the white will drain through, leaving the thicker white and yolk intact.

White artists have made millions of dollars off music they stole from black artists. I don't blame all the white artists. I'm a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn fan, and he was always very gracious about where he learned his music. But a lot of the time, you'd think the white guys thought it up. Hey, hasn't anyone heard of Muddy Waters?

White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

The only reason anything was off-white at the Chateau was because it had once been just plain white.

I'm not white. Why should I care about the future of white societies

At first, the tornado is nearly invisible. Against the sky, it's white on white.

It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

Green Bay is a blue-collar community, and it's all about the Packers. I was able to go there, slow down and focus on the game.

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

I think we have to remember that the white patriarchal system actually benefits white women in a lot of the ways and they're attached to white men who are benefiting from the system that was created by them, for them, and their fathers and their husbands and their brothers are benefiting from the system and so they are also benefiting.

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

The fans called me Jungleman. They said this young guy's not white. He's black in a white man's skin.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

I miss corner men dressed up in the white cardigans, with sometimes the white hat they may have on.

I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.

She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

White people who voted for Trump decided to invest in a president who underwrites white supremacy in the guise of populism.

Basic fairness and equity demand that the color of your collar should not dictate if you receive a bail-out or get bailed on.

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.

White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all true and good. But it also suggests that there is an individual approach to the issues that many of these white people have taken up as a recognition of their tie to and responsibility for some of the inequities that exist. And I don't think it has to be an either-or. I think it has to be a bifocal approach.

I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.

When I watched castles in 'Alice In Wonderland' or 'Snow White,' I would think of owning a house in white and not pink.

A Brooks Brothers button-down with an unfastened collar, rolled-up sleeves, and jeans makes for a comfortable, casual look.

I love white walls because white reflects the light and is a great backdrop for art.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

The White House and the media need one another in order to be successful in their jobs. The White House depends on the media to make its case to the public; the media need the White House to fill their airtime and news columns.

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

Certainly Roseanne Barr has power, but it seems like it's more acceptable to be heavy if you're lower middle class and blue collar.

The key to transforming your look with a collar is ensuring that it looks as if it's part of the dress, so there shouldn't be any skin visible underneath.

The government at all levels is overly represented by white men. That's part of the problem, and I'm a white man.

Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.