Bel Kaufman Quotes

As a former student put it: “In a liberry it’s hard to avoid reading."

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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

• Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Together
  • Bring
  • Heal

• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • World
  • History

• Thirteen years I took on this last book.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Book
  • Years
  • Last

• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Deep
  • Balance
  • Theatre

• Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Say

• I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Daydreamer

• I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.

  

  Omri Katz
  • Future
  • Look
  • Mistakes

• Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Sad
  • Sea
  • Boat

• I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

  

  David Chase
  • Children

• Fashion is more about feel than science.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Science
  • Fashion

• I'm not mean.

  

  Matt Drudge

• Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Past
  • Pain
  • Laughing

• Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • World
  • Culture

• I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Past
  • Kind
  • Player

• I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • God
  • Book
  • Reading

• Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the real deal. She tells me that every single Irish review of her new book has made passing reference to Cecelia Ahern. Weird, given that Emer is to chick-lit what Shane MacGowan is to sobriety.

  

  Olaf Tyaransen
  • Real
  • She
  • Book

• As a former student put it: “In a liberry it’s hard to avoid reading."

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Reading
  • Student