Misattributed Bill Cosby Quotes

#1. People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

Claudia Rankine

#2. I'm dying twice as fast
as any other American
between eighteen and thirty-five
This disturbs me,
but I try not to show it in public.

Essex Hemphill

#3. You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

Howie Carr

#4. Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.

Gerald McRaney

#5. I like music a lot.

Usain Bolt

#6. Memory is that element in our consciousness that connects the past with the present. If we had no memory, there would be only one moment of our life, the moment we call now, and we would never consciously recognize more than this single moment.

Gustaf Stromberg

#7. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28, ESV).

Randy Alcorn

#8. Perhaps, however, music retains a survival role in adults in that it allows the 'practice' of feeling emotions without having to risk the consequences of acting on these emotions.

Isabelle Peretz

#9. A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

Ann Zwinger

#10. They were as done as our Waffle King after the Cow Incident of '97.

Alessandra Torre

#11. Bush is the face on the can. But who canned that soup?

Mort Sahl

#12. I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in the chair and fight through the difficult patches. As long as you're at the desk, and you're willing to fight it out, eventually the right words will come.

Eric Schlosser

#13. Despite his intent, tears sprang to his eyes, and he went into her embrace, both of them sobbing freely, like enemies joined by a common loss or lovers about to be parted. Or else souls who could not remember whether they were lovers or enemies and were weeping at their own confusion.

Clive Barker

#14. I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

#15. As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.

Oprah Winfrey