Judith Viorst Quotes

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Judith Viorst

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• Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Military
  • Liberals

• The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Actor
  • Stage
  • Paper

• I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Live
  • Home
  • House

• The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Kids
  • Play
  • Mom

• I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Child
  • Sick
  • Sibling

• Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Actor

• Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • World
  • Perception

• Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • True
  • Law
  • Cutting

• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Quality
  • Ability
  • Excellence

• The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

  

  William Proxmire
  • Home
  • Poor
  • Ashamed

• There's no fear when you're having fun.

  

  Will Thomas (novelist)
  • Fun
  • Fear

• I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Head
  • Deliberate
  • Improviser

• I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitarist
  • Technician

• We always make our records really quickly, and this time we're gonna just slow it all down. Usually we write 12 or 13 songs, and then we just record them and that's it. We'd like to write, like, 40 songs and really spend a lot more time writing than we ever have.

  

  Mike Einziger Incubus
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Record

• Paying attention is not just analyzing carefully; rather, it is a constructive act... What we build has only the dimensions we have given it.

  

  Ulric Neisser
  • Attention
  • Build
  • Dimensions

• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • House
  • Tree

• Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

  

  Judith Viorst
  • Wood
  • Irrational
  • Superstition