Judy Blume Quotes

Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

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• There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Word

• For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Play
  • Religious
  • Now

• One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Health
  • Goals
  • Down

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Want
  • You
  • Message

• I work mostly in the studio; as I mentioned several times, the leaves are burgeoning and change so rapidly that I have been unable to prepare a single sketch. I am making little watercolors and pastels, I think they will come out all right; in the studio I am preparing five or six canvases, I work on one after another, I am getting used to working that way.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Single

• Before the phantom of False morning died, Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried, 'When all the Temple is prepared within, Why nods the drowsy Worshipper outside?'

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Why
  • Morning

• If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Kids

• Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Life
  • Death

• The Internet Governance Forum - which brings together NGOs, government officials and companies - needs to do a better job of including representatives from Africa, Latin America, and Asia and addressing their issues.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Job
  • America
  • Together

• I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can be a real journey to accept what that bond is once you both mature into it. Because it's not always what you want. It's not always what you expect. It's not always what you imagined or hoped. But it's one of the most important things in the world.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• Portia de Rossi is a gorgeous woman, and I found it incredibly refreshing to discover that she puts very little stock in her appearance, instead preferring to concentrate on what goodness she can put into the world around her - a choice we can all learn from.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • World
  • She
  • Stock

• I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Friends
  • America

• When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • God
  • Judge

• Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Great
  • Feeling

• Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.

  

  David Whyte
  • Done
  • Job

• Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Attitude

• We want to teach families how to cook Tuscan wherever you are. How to reuse your leftovers. How to trick the kids into eating whatever you want by putting it into a frittata.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Kids

• I think most documentaries are too long.

  

  Marshall Curry
  • Long

• I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say 'no', never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.

  

  Bruce Bennett
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Trying

• The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Character
  • Science
  • Existence

• I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Character