Black Lipstick Sayings

#1. I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.

Nicki Minaj

#2. I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

Christina Hendricks

#3. I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.

Klaus Nomi

#4. To me, goth is like really hard black lipstick, black nails, black clothes.

Shawna Thompson

#5. In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.

Allan Nairn

#6. Even the truth, when believed, is a lie. You must experience the truth, not believe it.

Werner Erhard

#7. The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

#8. I welcome challenges. I like challenges. It gives me a reason to keep going.

Rose Namajunas

#9. I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.

Saffron Aldridge

#10. We just do what we do, we're grateful every night when there's people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us. We're all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we're just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.

Al Barr

#11. Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Marilyn Hacker

#12. I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet
buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture
than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.

Mary Karr

#13. We've all gone through some kind of betrayal, whether it's with a boyfriend or a friend or a family member. That's why this is so relatable to everybody because we all know what it feels like to feel that betrayal.

Cameron Diaz

#14. All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

James Young

#15. I didn't want the person standing there, beside the bed, to have the same face I'd found so attractive at the airport. But you were there all right: the blue eyes, blondish hair, and tiny scar. Only you didn't look beautiful this time. Just evil.

Lucy Christopher

#16. No one cares about the past any more," he whispered. "They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.

Joe Abercrombie

#17. My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. I know nothing about that woman.

Amy Bloom

#18. You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

Bob Seger