Bel Kaufman Quotes

Your blouse is whitening on the chair and your parrot Flaubert weeps in French: she left him, and he is sorry.

Bel Kaufman

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• I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Kids
  • Everything
  • Sorry

• When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Girl

• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Wise
  • Sad
  • Sorry

• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Small
  • Sorry
  • Bird

• Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Think

• There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Guy
  • Picture
  • Wall

• I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time the rest of the passengers file on, and it's hard not to feel sorry for them. They're sort of trooping past you like cows to slaughter and you're sitting there in your, you know, wide-body seat.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Past
  • Myself

• I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

  

  Harry Browne
  • American
  • Bad
  • Sorry

• I like to provoke. I'm very French.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Very
  • French

• 'Now, boy, now...' he said bewilderedly, 'what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Simple

• Charlie McCarthy: I can't take this schoolwork any more - it's driving me nuts.Edgar Bergen: Well Charlie, I'm sorry, but hard work never killed anyone.Charlie McCarthy: Still, there's no use in taking chances.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Work
  • Driving
  • Sorry

• Before I met him, I wasted so much time. I was just annoying and narcissistic, and smelled bad. He’s protective without being possessive, passionate without needing to show his temper. I’m sorry, I know I sound insipid.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Sorry

• I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • People
  • Book
  • Sorry

• The violations of these diesel motors by our company go against everything that Volkswagen stands for... at this time, I don't yet have the answers to all the questions. I'm utterly sorry that we have damaged trust in this way. I offer my deepest apologies to our customers, the authorities, and to the public at large for our misconduct.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Sorry

• All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

  

  Deborah Kerr
  • People
  • Stop
  • Sorry

• I don't feel sorry for myself.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • Sorry

• I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC's Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World.

  

  Pauline Neville-Jones
  • World
  • Small
  • Proud

• I get fans stopping me and telling me what a bad man I am. I got a lot of that at Comic-Con. I'd tell them, 'Sorry, mate.'

  

  David Bradley
  • Bad
  • Sorry

• The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • American
  • Star
  • Ambition

• To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.

  

  James R. Clapper

• Bobby made references to me a few times on Show Me The Money. He seemed to enjoy using words like 'sangnamja (T/N: true man, also the title for 'Boy in Luv') and 'leading a fast life' (T/N: pronounced as Bangtang). Saying "Like a true man, I lead a fast life" isn't a common mix of words, right? I thought that it wasn't just a coincidence.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Life
  • Money
  • True

• The motto of his Robinson Jeffers’s work is 'More! More!'-but as Tolstoy says, 'A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion'; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: 'A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Work
  • Long
  • Art

• Your blouse is whitening on the chair and your parrot Flaubert weeps in French: she left him, and he is sorry.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Sorry
  • French
  • Parrot