Bel Kaufman Quotes

Reading between the lines, I got the impression of dull domesticity that had settled upon them like fine dust.

Bel Kaufman

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• Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Afraid
  • Own
  • Shadows

• I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • God
  • Catholic
  • Anymore

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Die
  • Person
  • Should

• Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • American
  • Always
  • Legacy

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • High

• And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Release

• Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Audience
  • Talent
  • Luck

• So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Blow

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• If it's boring, then it's tiring.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Boring
  • Then
  • Tiring

• I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Real
  • Fun

• People say McGregor is tall and all that. He's as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I've fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Advantage
  • Reach
  • Fought

• Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Different
  • Connection
  • Trouble

• If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry about being tactful to them - Crocker's Rules only work one way.)

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Work
  • Worry

• If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Done

• We will wash and clean the ANC, and it will be the ANC you know. The ANC that will work for the people.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Work

• But honestly, it's pretty weird; there are girls who'd do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don't know what it is, but really, when you're on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I'm not complaining!

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • America
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Reading

• I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

  

  Daniel Silva
  • Up
  • War
  • History

• Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Children
  • School
  • Reading

• I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Action

• Reading between the lines, I got the impression of dull domesticity that had settled upon them like fine dust.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Reading
  • Impression
  • Dust