Bel Kaufman Quotes

Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. “Again I didn’t win? But last year I didn’t win also!”

Bel Kaufman

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• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Golf

• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Day

• I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Time
  • Work
  • Eyes

• I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Doing
  • Looking
  • Roots

• I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Me
  • Running
  • Gym

• I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Struggle

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Opinion
  • Cancer
  • Accept

• It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Up
  • Home
  • Beauty

• I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Dark
  • Enjoy

• People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Obstacles

• When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Know
  • Play
  • First

• A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • See
  • Generation
  • Market

• I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • Season
  • Editing

• People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • People
  • Me
  • Make

• And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Reputation

• These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Good
  • Best
  • Surprise

• Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Time
  • Home
  • Tea

• When are we going to start getting it done? I don't know. I know we're here for the long haul. So, at some point, we've got to start getting it done if we're going to win football games.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Long
  • Done
  • Football

• We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Power

• Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. “Again I didn’t win? But last year I didn’t win also!”

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Win
  • Disappointment
  • Astonishment