Betty Comden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
-
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
-
Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
-
I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
-
Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
-
Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
-
I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
-
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
-
Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
-
People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
-
The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
-
Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
-
The unspoken word never does harm.
-
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
-
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
-
We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.
-
It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.
-
I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?
-
It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.
-
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
-
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
-
I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.
-
Broadway's not what it used to be.
