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
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix Rohatyn
My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.
Alan Gabriel Barnsley
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
Pat Robertson
The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.
George Gilder
It's not easy to play a match every two days.
Juan Ramon Lopez Caro
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
