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

• I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.

  

  John Hughes
  • Business
  • Action

• Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Glad
  • Hopes
  • Escapes

• That's how you win these battles over long periods of time. You continue to fight. You continue to bring it up. You continue to message it to your constituents and to America in general.

  

  John Fleming
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so dull, and like the White Queen one had to run so fast to stay where one was, let alone progress; and there were few men who dared to say they had found God. It was easy to be a clever sinner, for the race to an earthly visible goal was short to run, so impossibly hard to be a wise saint, with the goal set at so vast a distance from this world and clouded with such uncertainty.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Goal

• In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Always
  • Old
  • Expensive

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

  

  Betty Parsons