George Singleton Quotes

I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

George Singleton

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• You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • King
  • Defeat

• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Children
  • Relationship
  • Miracle

• Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Become
  • Complicated
  • IRS

• I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • Done
  • Think

• I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Writing

• A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym... so I took his advice.

  

  Warren G
  • People
  • Family
  • High

• There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts... I think it's very important for me to have wider horizons, rather than just waiting for calls.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Important
  • Waiting

• Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.

  

  James Bobin
  • Culture

• One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

  

  Gloria Gaynor
  • High
  • Career
  • Winning

• I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.'

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven

• I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my mother moved, to stay with her, and then moved back to North Carolina to finish junior high and high school.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Up
  • School
  • Mother

• My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.

  

  Amanda Eliasch
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Practice

• The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

  

  Ludwig Bemelmans
  • True

• Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

  

  Jonathan Richman
  • Different
  • Trying

• Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Heart
  • Dog
  • Teach

• Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fall

• Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Job
  • Rest

• I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

  

  George Singleton
  • Stories
  • Teach
  • Cat