Kay Bailey Hutchison Quotes

The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

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• I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Stop
  • Beginning

• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Sea

• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Rest
  • Enjoy
  • Ignore

• When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Slavery
  • Saying

• I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Best

• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Trade

• When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Father
  • Myself
  • Painting

• The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • America
  • Food
  • Responsibility

• Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Common
  • Privacy
  • Sitting

• This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • America
  • Bad
  • Beginning

• Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Roles
  • Flirty
  • Adulterous

• I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Great
  • Same
  • Musicians

• Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Fight

• The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Fear
  • Doctor
  • Captain

• Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Different
  • Important
  • Writing

• Had a buddy of mine caught a rainbow trout, and threw it back. He said he didn't want a gay fish.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Gay
  • Rainbow

• We've made the Middle East more unstable and chaotic than ever before. We left Christians subject to intense persecution and even genocide. We have done nothing to help the Christians, nothing, and we should always be ashamed for that lack of action.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Done
  • Help
  • Action

• Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body once moved will always keepe ye same celerity, quantity & determination of its motion.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • State
  • Naturally
  • Persevere

• The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Great
  • Different
  • American

• I want to make a film that is commercially successful because that means that the larger cinema-going audience around the world like the movie, which is my goal. That's my job, to make films that people respond to.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.

  

  Brian Azzarello

• The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison