Bel Kaufman Quotes
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.Bel Kaufman
Quotes to Explore
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
Saint Ambrose -
There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
Orlando Bloom -
I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
Ogden Nash -
To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
Adam Mansbach
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden -
If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
Laura Esquivel -
It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
Gary Bauer -
Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
Kat Graham -
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
Carl Sandburg
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My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
J. Tillman -
Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
Garrett Hedlund -
It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.
Gail Devers -
…all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood
Anthony Burgess -
I stay focused on details It keeps me from feeling the big things But watch the microscope long enough Things that seem still are still changing
Ben Folds -
At the end of the day, all we're trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he's not strong in the strike zone.
Jake Arrieta
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
Ida Lupino -
When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.
Heidi Julavits -
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.
Bel Kaufman