Bel Kaufman Quotes

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

Bel Kaufman

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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.

Samm Levine
- Work
- Enjoy
- Against
I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

Fiona Apple
- Stop
- Myself
- Singing
Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.

Sam Kean
- Universe
- Same
- Alien
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

Ralph Bunche
- World
- Country
- Better
My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.

Natasha Leggero
- Want
- Comedy
- Dumb
As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.

Maeve Binchy
- People
- Children
- Remember