Pearl Bailey Quotes

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

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• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
  • True
  • Best
  • Rest

• I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • World
  • Rest

• It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Country
  • Attention
  • Rest

• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Men
  • America
  • Rest

• You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Truth
  • You
  • Rest

• Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Rock

• Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Family
  • Home
  • Rest

• I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Book
  • Success
  • Universe

• A lot of people don't understand how hard the girls on 'Total Divas' work. They're on the road, the same as the rest of us, and then when they get home, they've got to be filming this whole time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • World
  • Rest
  • Looking

• I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Great
  • Rest
  • Always

• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • City
  • Government
  • Rest

• I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I'm Canadian.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • California

• I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time the rest of the passengers file on, and it's hard not to feel sorry for them. They're sort of trooping past you like cows to slaughter and you're sitting there in your, you know, wide-body seat.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Past
  • Myself

• It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • America
  • Future
  • Today

• In principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Practice
  • Consistency

• There were lots of songs that were on 'It Still Moves' that I had written, and we had played - rehearsed, but also played live a couple of times - that could've gone on 'At Dawn', but we always knew we wanted to make a record that was more quote-unquote 'rock n' roll.'

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Live
  • Rock
  • Couple

• In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Reality
  • Order
  • Lives

• Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

  

  Pearl Bailey
  • Rest