Bel Kaufman Quotes

Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

Bel Kaufman

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• Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Great
  • Women
  • Man

• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • True
  • Best
  • Succeed

• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Live
  • America
  • Freedom

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Good
  • God
  • Half

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• I'm a child of the Sixties.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Child
  • Sixties

• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Beginning

• I'm not hard to get along with.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Hard
  • Get
  • Along

• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Saved
  • Ours

• It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Heart
  • Political
  • Same

• My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Black
  • Smart
  • Perspective

• I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Up
  • Different
  • Small

• I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Mail
  • Viagra

• I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • America
  • Happy
  • Television

• The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Sea
  • Solitude

• There's a good amount of research out there that shows generous parental leave policies have a significant positive impact on employee retention and morale.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Good
  • Positive

• The experiences of the years...have brought the country, particularly its young people, to a mood of depression, disillusion, and withdrawal from the effort to affect the world.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.

  

  Mitch Leigh
  • Freedom
  • Musical
  • Composer

• Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Good

• Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Children
  • Connoisseurs