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.
Quotes to Explore
-
To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
-
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.
-
I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
-
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?
-
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
-
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.
-
My dad is afraid of my laugh.
-
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
-
That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
-
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.
-
Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
-
My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.
-
Science is all very well when a man can afford to make it his hobby, but I have come to the conclusion that a man has no right to ride a hobby while his family have to work to make a living.
-
Words and works eat not at one table.
-
When you create advertising, always start with the words.
-
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
-
With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other’s cards.
