Burton Rascoe Quotes

What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

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• It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Newspaper

• In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Future

• When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Police

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • American
  • Always

• You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • You
  • Someone
  • Without

• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Black
  • Best
  • Black-and-white

• I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Time
  • Community
  • Serious

• I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Different
  • You
  • Try

• Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Go

• People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Support

• I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Work
  • Quality
  • More

• Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • She
  • Think
  • Woman

• Only in space did I realize how lucky I am to be Korean. Only in Korea could I have gone to space before turning 30 years old.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Space
  • Korean

• I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Desert

• Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Good
  • Government
  • System

• The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Parents
  • Powerful
  • Influence

• I've always loved the use of the word 'thick' when it comes to heavy because it's always a positive thing.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Positive

• I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Real
  • Happy

• Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Up
  • Family
  • Parents

• I found myself with a wife and kids, and some of my friends weren't around as much. They weren't calling as much, and I didn't quite know what it was. Someone said, "Yeah, I recently lost one of my closest friends. He got his finger stuck in a wedding ring." And I thought, "Oh, that's what's happening! We're all going off and making our own families."

  

  Scott Foley
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Fingers

• What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

  

  Burton Rascoe
  • Wife
  • Writer