Mayor David Dinkins Quotes & Sayings

When we are brought low, that's when God is preparing us — Northside Baptist Church

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it. — Carl Hilty

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties. — Oscar Wilde

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie ... — William Shakespeare

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. — Sidney Poitier

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be ... And, you know you can be mayor. — David Dinkins

She could have dropped you both off. whar's the worst she can do? cry hysterically?"
the gears on the ute get stuck at the lights and will pushes tom's hand out of the way and and shoves it into the correct gear.
"it wasn't her" he mutters after a moment.
"sorry?" tom says.
"she didn't cry"
"then what?"
it's too quiet except for the quiet for the crap engine sounding like a lawn mower.
"i cried"
luca bursts out laughing beside will.
"yeah, well i did" will says. "And it's not the thing you want to do in front of a bunch on engineers. — Melina Marchetta

The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision. — Dag Hammarskjold

I made a decision long ago not to make any apologies. Romance rocks, and even though my books don't actually fall into the romance genre, I tout them as very much being about the romance. It's fun. We're all obsessed with it. And it's human nature. Remember, NO APOLOGIES! Write what 's in your heart! — Darynda Jones

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor. — David Dinkins

A Baby Sermon-
The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home — George MacDonald

Performers love to perform - that's the thing that we do. I think one of the best things was being able to imagine anything that I wanted, anything that I came up with we could do, because this theater is unbelievable. — Cher

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process. — Cynthia Weil

Paul Bearer has more chins than a Chinese phone book! — Jerry Lawler

In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else. — Jules Verne

I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. — Alexander Payne