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

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • God
  • Catholic
  • Anymore

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

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Die
  • Person
  • Should

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.

  

  Kristin Kreuk

• One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'

  

  David Bergen
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• Goals are what count for me. It's not about a battle with defenders. Fighting hard, giving everything and working hard on the field you have to combine with the goals you score. It doesn't matter if defenders want to battle with me or not; I will just be trying to do my job as well as I possibly can.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Giving

• If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

  

  Brian Williams
  • People
  • Giving

• I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Family

• Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.

  

  James P. Gorman

• 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

• Out, you impostors!Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks! Your skillIs to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.

  

  Philip Massinger
  • Men
  • Sick
  • Cheating

• I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Reading

• This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts...It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading-the sum total of our experience.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Education

• I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading

• It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Earth

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

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Reading
  • Impression
  • Dust