Betty Buckley Quotes
We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
-
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
-
I don't know how people recognize me.
-
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
-
If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
-
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
-
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
-
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
-
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
-
Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
-
Acting was something I had to do.
-
We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
-
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
-
L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
-
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
-
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
-
I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
-
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
-
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
-
A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.
-
I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.
-
Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
-
Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.
-
We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.
