Betty Smith Quotes

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith

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• When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Internet
  • Name
  • Cloud

• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Saying

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

  

  Ice T
  • Kind
  • Hip Hop
  • DJ

• For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Style

• I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Character
  • Bad

• I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Think
  • Nice

• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Sea
  • Calm

• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Reality
  • Immigration
  • Trail

• There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Great
  • Wine
  • Nothing

• Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • She
  • Author

• Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Watching
  • Washington

• I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Sweet
  • Very
  • Spectrum

• Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

  

  Daren Kagasoff
  • Important

• We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Political
  • Violence

• I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Confused
  • Intuition
  • Addiction

• When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Child
  • Buying

• Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds

  

  Barack Obama
  • Night
  • Black
  • Earth

• Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Time
  • Earth