Reynolds Price Quotes

You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.

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• Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Hope
  • Black

• To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Situation

• When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Singing

• Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Jewelry

• As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Life
  • Responsibility

• I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Marriage

• I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Die
  • Like
  • Movies

• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • School

• I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • American
  • Know

• I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • Team
  • Focus

• If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Long
  • Travel
  • Journey

• Education is very important to me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Important
  • Education
  • Me

• But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Time
  • Problems
  • Saying

• When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Done
  • Risk

• If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Jesus
  • Obey

• Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Questions
  • Minded
  • Beggarmem

• I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Kind

• I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Hero

• It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave.

  

  Brigid Schulte
  • Work
  • America
  • Painful

• I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Religious

• In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.

  

  Owen Wister
  • Car
  • Firsts
  • Class

• You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.

  

  Reynolds Price
  • Realizing
  • Students
  • Athletic