Judy Blume Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
-
That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
-
I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
-
I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
-
I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
-
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
-
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
-
History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
-
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
-
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
-
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
-
Judge: Do you want Mr. Bryan sworn?
-
I hear that I'm funny, and I think I'm funny, but I go in all the time for multicam, and they say that I'm not big enough, or I'm too big. I'm so confused. Okay, well, I'm funny in real life.
-
The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.
-
I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.
-
After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
-
The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.
-
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.
-
I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
-
The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
-
It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.
-
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
-
We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions.
-
I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
