Joseph Barbera Quotes

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

Joseph Barbera

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• My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Good
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Love
  • Dogs
  • Golden

• I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Audio

• Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

  

  La Monte Young
  • People
  • You
  • Education

• Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Life
  • Road
  • Same

• He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Free
  • Evil
  • King

• Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Imagination
  • Body
  • Radio

• Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Strength

• It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Cool
  • Smart
  • Honor

• The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • God
  • Sacrifice
  • Saints

• I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Song
  • Playing
  • Piano

• Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression.

  

  Jack Keane
  • More
  • Aggression
  • Unanswered

• At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Think
  • You

• The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Reality

• Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• Her mother called to her. She said, 'Where are you going, Flora Belle?' Flora didn't answer her. She never answered her mother when she called her Flora Belle. Sometimes she didn't answer her mother when she called her Flora either.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • She
  • Mother

• Poetry is everlasting. It is not going away. But it has never occupied a sizeable part of the world's business, and it never will.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • World
  • Business
  • Poetry

• I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Small
  • Aunt

• When I date different guys, I just have to stay away - and not let myself fall. Because if I do, it's over.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Different
  • Guy
  • Fall

• Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • People
  • Equality

• If you came to see the truth, the purity, it's here inside a lonely heart.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Truth
  • Purity
  • Lonely Heart

• You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her expletive whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.

  

  Etta James
  • Singing
  • President
  • Inauguration

• I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

  

  Joseph Barbera