Bel Kaufman Quotes
Stripped of her calculated clothes and the careful camouflage of her make-up she was tired, unalluring, middle-aged. And that was something she would never admit to herself, for most of the illusion of beauty is the conviction of beauty.
Bel Kaufman
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
Garrison Keillor
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
Harmony Korine
If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
Sam Farr
My dad doesn't hug me enough!
Jack Whitehall
In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
Tariq Ali
There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
Lady Gaga
Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
Calvin Johnson
Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
Laura Harring
The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice.
Catherine Fisher
Stripped of her calculated clothes and the careful camouflage of her make-up she was tired, unalluring, middle-aged. And that was something she would never admit to herself, for most of the illusion of beauty is the conviction of beauty.
Bel Kaufman
