Bailey Whitfield Diffie (Whitfield Diffie) Quotes
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
Quotes to Explore
-
In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
-
I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
-
I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
-
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
-
I just lost interest in performing.
-
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
-
I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
-
If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
-
This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
-
Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
-
It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
-
We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
-
The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
-
Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
-
My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.
-
If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
-
I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.
-
Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.
-
L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.
-
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
-
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
-
India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'
-
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
-
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
