Charles Kuralt Quotes
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Quotes to Explore
-
Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
-
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
-
Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
-
I don't think I have a signature.
-
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
-
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
-
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
-
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
-
We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
-
People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
-
It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
-
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
-
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
-
Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
-
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
-
I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
-
One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
-
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
-
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
-
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.
-
Guys are so visual.
-
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
-
My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.
-
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
