Taylor Caldwell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The art of life is to show your hand.
-
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
-
Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
-
It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
-
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
-
I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
-
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
-
Actor's life is very long.
-
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
-
Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
-
The bad boy: always more fun.
-
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
-
As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
-
Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
-
If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
-
God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
-
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
-
Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
-
I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.
-
The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.
-
I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
-
In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.
-
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
-
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
