Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

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• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Down
  • Back

• The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • You
  • Basketball

• My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Me

• I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Boring
  • Here
  • Beliefs

• Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • Know
  • Fashion

• I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Life
  • Always
  • Never

• I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Family
  • Home
  • Happy

• He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Couple
  • Short
  • Sandwiches

• You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Player

• I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • Money
  • Perfection

• I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Saying
  • Journalism

• I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Live
  • Home
  • True

• I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Game
  • Reality
  • Forever

• God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • People
  • Acceptance

• Uruguayans are competitive, and we always want to win. Even though we try to hide it, it is impossible.

  

  Diego Godin

• I seriously wished-selfish as it may appear-that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a date as should have put my intermeddling with it entirely out of the question.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Society
  • Question

• What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

  

  William of Occam
  • Assumption
  • Fewer

• Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey