Elayne Boosler Quotes

Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.

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• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • First
  • Names
  • Vegas

• When I was shooting in Pollachi, I had tried out a lot of local food, most of them I don't remember the names of.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Remember
  • Food
  • Names

• I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

  

  James Brown
  • Music
  • Names
  • Tunes

• My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Purpose
  • Should
  • Able

• Never kiss in public, but at home I am affectionate.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Home
  • Kiss
  • Kissing

• The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Men
  • Farewell
  • Hitler

• The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Names

• Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Democracy

• Jesus has given you the right to use His name. That name can break the power of disease, the power of the adversary. That name can stop disease and failure from reigning over you. There is no disease that has ever come to man which this name cannot destroy.

  

  E. W. Kenyon
  • Men
  • Power
  • Stop

• The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon their dead gods to call upon the name of The Lord and be delivered.

  

  T. L. Osborn
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • People
  • Character
  • History

• And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Character
  • Past

• One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Up
  • God
  • Words

• The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.

  

  Banksy
  • Time
  • Mean
  • Famous

• Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Age
  • Society
  • Science

• Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Dream

• They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You don't know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.' I don't think we're honoring that man properly by using his name in vain in parking lots.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Car
  • Knows
  • Jobs

• I looked at that list, and it blew me away. To be in with those names makes me feel enormously honored.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Feel
  • Names
  • Honored

• How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.

  

  C. F. Powell
  • Great

• Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

  

  Plato
  • Quality
  • Poverty
  • Workman

• The world went insane before I did, I'm just adapting to the new reality.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • Reality
  • Adapting

• Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Names
  • Affectionate
  • Turkeys