Betty White Quotes

It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.

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• Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Focused
  • Often
  • North

• I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Job
  • Desire
  • Acting

• Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Me
  • Public

• ...'originality' is everyone’s aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. T.S. Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: 'It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel’s discoveries.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Done

• It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Country
  • Power
  • American

• I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.

  

  Anne Enright
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• With 'Midnight Special,' the sound was used as a narrative construct. The audience is looking in one direction when a sound suddenly erupts from the other direction.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Revolution

• I think 'Party Down' found its audience primarily on Netflix and stuff like that, and primarily after it had been cancelled.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Party

• I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Up
  • Home
  • Reading

• I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

  

  Matt Flynn
  • Important

• That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

  

  Joe Mantegna
  • Why

• What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

  

  Frederick Tennyson
  • Live
  • Forever

• I'll fight every weekend - hell yeah.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Weekend

• Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

  

  John Bonham Led Zeppelin
  • Up
  • Wall

• In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

  

  David Icke
  • Knowledge
  • Period
  • Safety

• When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.

  

  James Fenton
  • May
  • Help
  • Song

• If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

  

  Orson Welles
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Director

• Fashion does seem to have a '20s comeback every few seasons, and I completely see why. It's a very feminine look: the fabrics and the shapes are very pretty and distinctive.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Fashion

• I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Team
  • Focus

• In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Work
  • Courage

• It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.

  

  Betty White
  • Comeback