Belva Plain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
-
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
-
Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
-
There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
-
I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
-
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
-
Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.
-
We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
-
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
-
The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
-
If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
-
I haven't hypnotised a whole lot of celebrities, because they're fearful of it.
-
Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
-
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
-
[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
-
I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
-
Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.
-
Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.
-
The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.
-
I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
-
Every house has its own private cup of sorrow.
-
... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.
