Frederick Buechner Quotes

With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other’s cards.

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• To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Live
  • New York

• One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Country
  • Greatest
  • Grit

• When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Exercise

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Aliens

• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Religious

• My dad is afraid of my laugh.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Dad
  • Laugh
  • Afraid

• A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Smart
  • Information

• That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Again
  • Public Domain

• But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Myself
  • Win

• Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Rock

• My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

  

  Edith Head
  • Audience
  • Clothes
  • Motto

• Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Grew

• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Want
  • Nice
  • Moving

• Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Remember

• In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Time
  • Moments

• As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Life
  • Government
  • Financial

• We need to be smarter. We are very ignorant about things that go on in our solar system.

  

  John Young
  • Ignorant
  • Solar

• Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, a football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Football

• Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Heart
  • Religion

• With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other’s cards.

  

  Frederick Buechner
  • Words