Betty Smith Quotes

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

Betty Smith

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• The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Difficult

• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Age
  • Society

• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Opportunity

• The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Man
  • Worst
  • Corruption

• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Fashion
  • London

• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Balance

• If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Look
  • Fight
  • White

• In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Courage
  • Leadership
  • South

• Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Power
  • Clean

• It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Amazing
  • Win
  • Destiny

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• A closed mind is a dying mind.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Mind
  • Dying
  • Closed

• I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Reason
  • Saying
  • Nonsense

• She rarely saw priest-and knowing her heart sinned, was glad of that. Dreary was a church after the woodlands and hills and sounding sea. She still loved God-and was not the earth His work, and a church only man’s?-but she could not bring herself to call on Him very often.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

  

  Burt Lancaster
  • Death

• So our livesIn acts exemplary, not only winOurselves good names, but doth to others giveMatter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

  

  George Chapman
  • Good
  • Live

• I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it will be four hours later and it will feel like it's been five minutes. I think that adds depth to your being, when something in your life can do that for you. Everybody should try to find something in their life that can do that for them. People find really elaborate self-destructive ways of killing time on this planet. That's why they take drugs or drink, trying to alter their state of being. If you can find something that doesn't destroy you, but deepens your character, you're really lucky.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • People
  • Self-destructive
  • Elaborate

• Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

  

  Betty Smith
  • Real
  • She
  • True