Black Hats Quotes:

Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!

- Jane Elliott

source: "Jane Elliot Dishes Her Role as General Hospital's Queen of Mean". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. May 15, 2012.

topic: Hate, Giving, Black, Black Hats

So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.

- Robert Vaughn

topic: Hate, Black, Hats, Black Hats

The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Home, Guy, Mustache, Wacky, Dry Cleaners

When your characters are not white hats or black hats but something in between, you do have to be very careful about your details. So, that takes a while. I'm not interested in white hats and black hats. I don't think that's how people are in real life.

- Victor Levin

topic: Real, Character, Thinking, Black Hats

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

topic: Eye, Men, Thinking, Unsuccessful, Black Hats

...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.

- E. L. Konigsburg

topic: Halloween, Silly, Mean, Brooms, Black Hats

When you are trying to get a shot, you can't be pleasing everybody. And I tend to be sort of collaborative and a bit of a pleaser. And when I'm directing, people just sort of call me Black Hat Gabriela. Because suddenly they're like, "What happened to you?" Because I stop listening. And I feel strident. I feel rude. And I feel un-collaborative.

- Liz W. Garcia

topic: People, Rude, Black, Pleasers, Black Hats

While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.

- Tony Blankley

topic: Gun, Boys, Cowboy, Black Hats

Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.

- Mary Jo Bang

source: Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

topic: Grief, Mirrors, Black, Mirroring, Where You Belong

We love a world in which the people in the white hats get rewarded and the people in the black hats pay the price. And that I have to say doesn't happen very often, particularly in a very complex economy. We're in a time of panic where people have lost trust in what the banks are doing, what the investment firms are doing - lost trust beyond a level of reasonableness, to be honest. And, it's got to be stopped.

- Rebecca M. Blank

source: "Religion&Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

topic: White, People, Black, Lost Trust, Reasonableness

Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.

- Scott Ritter

topic: Technology, White, Black, Black Hats, Magic Show

The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Jesus, Cat, Angel, Last Supper, Cowboy Movie

Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.

- David James Duncan

source: David James Duncan (2002). “My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark”, p.88, Univ of California Press

topic: Taken, Curves, Long, Taken For Granted, Question Mark

"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

- Agatha Christie

source: Agatha Christie (1980). “Five complete Miss Marple novels”, Random House Value Publishing

topic: Math, Exercise, Men, X Men, Black Hats

The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

- Norman Finkelstein

topic: Israel, Black, Territory, Israeli, Destroyers

As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have you seen my papa go by?" "M-m-m," said Pippi. "How did he look? Did he have blue eyes?" "Yes," said the girl. "Medium large, not too tall and not too short?" "Yes," said the girl. "Black hat and black shoes?" "Yes, exactly," said the girl eagerly. "No, that one we haven't seen," said Pippi decidedly.

- Astrid Lindgren

topic: Girl, Children, Eye, Black Hats

Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.

- Rachel Caine

topic: Summer, Teacher, Crazy, Last Summer, Walking Sticks

What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess that's the problem.' I don't think normal is that great.' But so many people choose it,' I reply. I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.' Well, why do we choose the hard road?

- Patrick Jones

source: Patrick Jones (2007). “Nailed”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Thinking, People, Black, Black Hats

We understand a person with problems, someone who is wrong about a lot of things in his or her life, who makes messes. We don't understand someone who is constantly right, who is only felled by Kryptonite. Chuck Klosterman had a pretty great book about this whole thing - I Wear The Black Hat - that came out last year and which I greatly enjoyed.

- Tod Goldberg

topic: Book, Years, Kryptonite, Last Year, Great Book