Bel Kaufman Quotes
How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter?
Quotes to Explore
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
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Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
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Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.
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Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
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In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
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I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.
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It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.
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We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.
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I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
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Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.
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The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. … So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.
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How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter?
