Betty Parsons Quotes

A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.

Betty Parsons

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• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Way
  • Dog
  • Wrong

• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Artist
  • Entrepreneur

• Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Work
  • Family
  • Dream

• California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Woman
  • Easy
  • California

• My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Party

• I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Inspired
  • Stuff
  • Because

• After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Being
  • Most
  • Naked

• Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

  

  Ovid
  • Character
  • Study
  • Faithful

• I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Brain

• I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Home
  • See

• I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Live
  • Rome
  • Romans

• See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • World
  • Forever
  • Perspective

• There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Mind
  • Singing
  • Picture

• He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.

  

  Gerhard Tersteegen
  • Draws
  • Destroys
  • Disposal

• He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Space
  • Sex
  • Depreciation

• There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Problem
  • Revolutionary
  • Masculine

• I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

  

  Winfried Vahland
  • Make
  • Cars
  • Worldwide

• Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.

  

  William Henry Houghton
  • God
  • Service
  • Partnership

• A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.

  

  Betty Parsons