Jen Selinsky Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.
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There's an electrical thing about movies.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'
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Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.
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t's always such a pleasure to have Germans enlighten us on the best way to move large groups of sick, downtrodden people by rail. The only motivation I can ascribe to such behavior is that same one that propels young dim boys to tear the wings off flies.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.
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I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!
