Betty Fussell Quotes

For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.

Betty Fussell

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• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Harmony
  • Florida
  • Rocket

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happiness
  • Scratch
  • Itch

• Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Free
  • You
  • Retirement

• You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Famous

• Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Me
  • Solutions
  • Sentences

• There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Problems

• I will send a strong message that Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security and that we don't find nuclear weapons acceptable as Iran is currently envisioning it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Friend

• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Single

• What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.

  

  Hal David
  • World
  • Sweet

• Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Fear

• Be content - Expansions, diffusions - content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Blue

• The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Done
  • Wisdom
  • Transformation

• It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Art
  • Picture

• If you really believe that every three years the market will double, then go and buy shares. I don't believe that.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Believe

• It is beautiful to see two people in a lasting relationship.

  

  Divyanka Tripathi
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

  

  Charles Williams
  • People
  • Wish

• I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Son

• I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Women
  • Think
  • Enjoy

• Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Respect

• And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?

  

  Chester Bowles
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.'

  

  Lenny Bruce

• For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.

  

  Betty Fussell
  • Joy
  • Independent
  • Right Path