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

• 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 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

• At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform.

  

  Kirby Smart

• If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Running

• 'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' its pages heavy with sinners brought low and prayers groaning on the wind, scared me when I read it as a teenager.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Wind
  • Mountain
  • Teenager

• I learned that the political is above the legal, that's why when my advisors tell me, Evo, what you are doing is illegal, I say, if it is illegal, then do it legal, you have studied for that".

  

  Evo Morales
  • Political
  • Illegal
  • Advisors

• I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Man
  • Action

• She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Health
  • Mean
  • Politics

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

  

  Judy Blume
  • Character