Brenda Laurel Quotes
Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.
Quotes to Explore
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.
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I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.
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The media's image of us is as animals, and we were never that to me. I knew love from black folks.
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Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.
