Betty Wright (Bessie Regina Norris) Quotes

I believe in legacy. And I believe in making the radio sound better. If I gotta listen to it, I want it to sound good.

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• President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Together
  • Principles

• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Open

• I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Remember
  • Black

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Attitude

• I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Rock
  • Living
  • Complain

• Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Live
  • Children
  • Home

• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Live
  • Family
  • Switzerland

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Try

• Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Money
  • Why
  • Know

• I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Focus
  • Luck

• It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Important
  • House
  • Space

• I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Friends
  • War
  • Hand

• When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Wonder

• My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier

• I have very talented art directors in my agency who start out telling me, 'Well, this is what the picture is... ' I ask, 'Well, what's the headline?' and they say, 'We haven't done that yet, but it looks this way.' But I'm still writing copy, almost every day.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Art

• Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.

  

  Zachary Schomburg
  • Writing
  • Power
  • Empathy

• Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Results
  • Feel Good

• I believe in legacy. And I believe in making the radio sound better. If I gotta listen to it, I want it to sound good.

  

  Betty Wright
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Legacy