Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.
Quotes to Explore
-
A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.
-
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
-
It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
-
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
-
I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
-
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
-
I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
-
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
-
I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.
-
I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.
-
It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
-
My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.
-
My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
-
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
-
I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.
-
There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
-
The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
-
No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.
-
There was a scant role for ethics in the paganism. It is not that ancient people were less ethical than people today; it is that ethics had little to do with religion. If it had a “location” in ancient life, it was in philosophy.
-
They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.
-
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
-
It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.
