Quotes and Sayings about Car
"I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Time, Career, Past)
"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Love, Anger, Man, Nothing)
"No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Time, Draft)
"Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Car, Life)
"I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Baby, Responsibility)
"The game has basically not changed since I ended my career."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Career)
"Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Actor, English, Language, Man, Now, Talk, Trying)
"Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps."
- Peter Abrahams
(Related: Dream, Magic)
"Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Career, Effort)
"I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: History, Legal)
"I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Car, Fact)
"Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: Career)
"There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua."
- Elliott Abrams
(Related: People)
"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Public)
"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Career)
"The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money."
- Marcel Achard
(Related: Money, Virtue, Career, First, Pleasure, Woman, Writer)
"I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Work)
"I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Now, Uncertainty)
"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Democracy, Elections, Evil, Force, Fraud, Majority, Party, Tyranny)
"It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control."
- Red Adair
(Related: Control, Hurt, Smile, World)
"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Attention, Care, Ladies, Laws, Rebellion, Voice, Will)
"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: God, Care, Mistakes, Relationships)
"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."
- George Matthew Adams
(Related: Successful, Applause, Care, Encouragement, Famous, Man, May, Woman)
"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Taste)
"We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby."
- Jack Adams
(Related: American, Fact)
"On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Chicago, December, End, Force, Islands)
"Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported."
- Jack Adams
"The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Care, Freedom, Now, Worry)
"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Success, Successful, Failure, Goal)
"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Cause, Company, Information, Problems)
"In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Women, Car)
"Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor."
- Will Adams
(Related: Company, Worth)
"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Life)
"Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Writing)
"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Care, Laughter, Pleasure)
"Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds."
- Kate Adie
(Related: People, Children, Now)
"I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Care, Expression, Freedom, Interest, Journalism, Liberty, Speech)
"I think that we all carry the divine within us."
- Isabelle Adjani
"If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Life, Career, Passion, Today, Years)
"I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah."
- Hasil Adkins
"When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Care, Difference, Justice, World)
"When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Fear)
"For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Change, People)
"I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Age, Career, Now, Profession)
"The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Health, Career, Problems, World)
"Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Boyfriend, Career, Now, Pretty, Right)
"But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Care, Film, Man, Needs, Woman)
"As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment."
- Kamal Ahmed
(Related: Being, Queen, Speech, Worry)
"People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up."
- Danny Aiello
(Related: Intelligence, People, Care, World)
"My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime."
- Danny Aiello
(Related: Family, Democrats, Republican, Want)
"If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Education, Opportunity, Career, Difference, Singing)
"It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: Financial, Credit, Debt, Decisions, May)
"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Wisdom, Mind, Treasure, Trouble)
"I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face."
- Lauren Alaina
(Related: Car, Hair, Windows)
"Israel does not care about the international public opinion."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Care, Israel, Opinion, Public, Public opinion)
"Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted."
- Carlos Alazraqui
(Related: Work)
"For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous."
- Carlos Alazraqui
(Related: Character, Being)
"I started doing stand-up in college."
- Carlos Alazraqui
(Related: College)
"I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup."
- Carlos Alazraqui
(Related: College, Comedy, Job, Recreation)
"I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business."
- Carlos Alazraqui
(Related: Business)
"Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better."
- Carlos Alazraqui
(Related: Movies)
"We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him."
- Carlos Alazraqui
(Related: Home, Time, Brother, Living)
"If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do."
- Carlos Alazraqui
(Related: Work, People, Disney, Name)
"Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be."
- Jessica Alba
(Related: Change, Idea, Being, Care, Celebrity, Fame, Job, Living)
"The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?"
- Damon Albarn
(Related: Change, Ideas, Celebrity, Culture, Fact, Metaphor)
"The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie."
- Damon Albarn
(Related: Intelligence, Work, Lie, People, Cartoons)
"My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Father, Nonsense, Parents, Theatre)
"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Colors)
"From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress."
- Carl Albert
(Related: Being, Congress)
"I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people."
- Eddie Albert
(Related: Happiness, People, Care, Joy)
"The simple act of caring is heroic."
- Edward Albert
(Related: Act, Caring)
"In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career."
- Edward Albert
(Related: Age, Work, Career, Countries, Film, Months)
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Business, Government, Corruption)
"I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old."
- Alan Alda
(Related: Home, Time, First, Months, Old)
"I will be better in Monte Carlo than I was in Phoenix. If I can't win maybe I will lead 50 laps."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Will)
"I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Racing)
"I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Health, Goal, Care, Country)
"Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Health, People, Care, Democrats, Months, Saying, Trying, Want, Washington, Will)
"The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care."
- William Alexander
(Related: Care, Rivers)
"Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime."
- Vittorio Alfieri
(Related: Happiness, Care, Crime, Heaven, Man)
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Mom, Cards, Man, Play, Sleep, Woman)
"Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Car, Life, People, Accidents, Day, Hurt, Will)
"Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance."
- Tatyana Ali
(Related: Care, Chance, Fact)
"Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in."
- Saul Alinsky
(Related: Life, Death, Care, Cause, Reputation)
"I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct."
- Samuel Alito
(Related: Ethics, Rules, Spirit)
"The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges."
- Wayne Allard
(Related: Successful, Country, Example, Military, Mission, Training, Will, Zone)
"The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving."
- Florence E. Allen
(Related: Money, Women, Fact, Fight, Generations, Worth)
"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Heart, Hollywood, Sincerity)
"Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Men, Mediocrity)
"Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously."
- Joan Allen
(Related: Opportunity, Acting)
"You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with."
- Marcus Allen
(Related: Play)
"The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward."
- Paul Allen
(Related: Being, Care, Humanity)
"My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office."
- Ralph Allen
(Related: Father, Knowledge, Care, Concern, First, Office)
"Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Intentions, Name)
"In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Office, Public)
"Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Planning, Result, Summer)
"My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Favorite, Thanksgiving, Trying)
"Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon."
- Tim Allen
(Related: Women, End, Want)
"My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance."
- Tim Allen
(Related: Men, Mom, Care, Reason)
"Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Health, American, Care, Entrepreneurs, Internet)
"By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!"
- Tom Allen
(Related: Health, Quality, American, Care, Giving, Will)
"To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Health, War, Opportunity, Belief, Care, Children, Tax, Iraq, Tax cuts)
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Death, Experience)
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Illusion, Nothing)
"I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Car, Being)
"When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Courage, Career, Energy, Will)
"I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Attitude, Care)
"I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Sex, Care)
"I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street."
- GG Allin
"Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years."
- Ian Allison
(Related: Talking, Years)
"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Jazz)
"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding."
- Chris Van Allsburg
(Related: Time, People, Opportunity, Talk, World)
"So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting."
- June Allyson
(Related: Music, Friend, Husbands, Study, Talk, Wives)
"I'm not a career woman."
- June Allyson
(Related: Career, Woman)
"When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it."
- Herb Alpert
(Related: Time, Car, People, Listening)
"I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store."
- Herb Alpert
(Related: Car, Selling, Artist, Song)
"I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker."
- Carol Alt
(Related: Thought, Woman)
"If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers."
- Carol Alt
(Related: Time)
"In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business."
- Carlos Alvarez
(Related: Business, Family, Beer)
"In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back."
- Carlos Alvarez
(Related: Popularity)
"Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989."
- Carlos Alvarez
(Related: Beginning, Light)
"The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States."
- Carlos Alvarez
(Related: Months, State, states, United)
"Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things."
- Lauren Ambrose
(Related: Car, Being, Clothes, Kids, Popular, Right, School, Trying)
"An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: Awards)
"My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: Mother, Brother, Books)
"The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Trust, Betrayal)
"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Europe, Historians)
"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way."
- Fisher Ames
(Related: Democracy, Destruction, Will)
"The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature."
- William Ames
(Related: Nature, Father, Son, Property)
"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Family, Destiny, Destruction, Salvation, Woman)
"One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Religion, Benefits)
"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
- A. R. Ammons
(Related: Stars)
"That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done."
- David Amram
(Related: People, Want)
"I stopped caring what people thought."
- Namie Amuro
(Related: Thought, People, Caring)
"For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular."
- Namie Amuro
(Related: Care, Popular)
"If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Work, Care, Day, Job, Respect)
"Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Martin, Will)
"I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years."
- Brady Anderson
(Related: People, Career, Years)
"Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method."
- Carl D. Anderson
(Related: Importance, Information)
"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."
- Carl D. Anderson
(Related: Negative, Positive, Majority)
"Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden."
- Carl D. Anderson
(Related: Home, Heart)
"Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Abundance, Force, Right, World)
"The well-cared-for woman is a parasite, and the woman who must work is a slave."
- Cora Anderson
(Related: Work, Woman)
"My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Life, People, Belief, Reincarnation)
"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."
- Jon Lee Anderson
(Related: Force, Medicine, Mercy, Occupation, states, United)
"My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Car, Work, Company, Fashion, Questions, Trying)
"Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Caring, Reading)
"I started a big part of my career in Vegas."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Career)
"Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings."
- Sparky Anderson
"And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?"
- Marliece Andrada
(Related: World)
"Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved."
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade
(Related: Heart)
"Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life."
- Carl Andre
(Related: Life, Time, Art, Work, Artist)
"I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs."
- Carl Andre
(Related: Art, Needs)
"It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment."
- Carl Andre
(Related: Time, Artist, Environment, Living)
"Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist."
- Carl Andre
(Related: Symbol)
"My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there."
- Carl Andre
(Related: Art, Desire, World)
"My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life."
- Carl Andre
(Related: Art, Life, Politics, Will)
"A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous."
- Carl Andre
(Related: Environment)
"I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio."
- Ursula Andress
"I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared."
- Ursula Andress
(Related: Acting, School)
"I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living."
- Ursula Andress
(Related: Food, Care, Cats, Flowers, Living)
"CART is one of the safest racing series in the world."
- Michael Andretti
(Related: Racing, World)
"If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down."
- Michael Andretti
(Related: Open, Racing)
"Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race."
- Michael Andretti
(Related: Race, Running)
"I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Country)
"I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Love, Career, Singing)
"So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Life, Being, Career, Reality)
"I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Music, Career, Singing)
"But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Career)
"But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Career)
"And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Success, Career)
"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Anger, Heart, Past, Present)
"I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it."
- Roger Angell
(Related: Death, Thought, Baseball, Press, Talk, Want, Writer)
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Opportunity, Girls)
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Heart, Care, Will)
"Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it."
- Walter Annenberg
"You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Fear)
"I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done."
- Carmelo Anthony
(Related: College)
"I just want to get on the court."
- Carmelo Anthony
(Related: Court, Want)
"I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong."
- Carmelo Anthony
(Related: People, Right, Will, Wrong)
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: People, Effect, Reform)
"I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember."
- David Antin
(Related: Ceremony)
"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Father, People)
"One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Father)
"The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him."
- Aharon Appelfeld
(Related: People, Biography, Deep, End, Israel, Metaphor, Writing)
"I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: People, Care)
"Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Care, Community, Law, Nothing, Reason)
"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Care, Community, Law, Reason)
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Joy, Man, Spiritual)
"Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Car, Bed, Horror, Silly, Thinking)
"I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard."
- Sergio Aragones
"I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Horror, Old)
"Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early."
- Eddie Arcaro
"I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!"
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Life, Cricket, England)
"My life and career is my own adventure."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Life, Adventure, Career)
"I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: People)
"I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: American, Fighting, Games, Gold, July, Kids, Will)
"When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Beauty, Money, Thought, Heart, Interest)
"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
- Aristotle
(Related: Life, Danger, Man)
"They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Women, Country, Woman)
"People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it."
- Roone Arledge
(Related: People, Care)
"Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly."
- Roone Arledge
(Related: Care, Congress)
"I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming."
- Roone Arledge
(Related: People, Day, Hurt, Programming, Public)
"We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car."
- Brody Armstrong
(Related: Car, Music, Driving)
"Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing."
- Lance Armstrong
(Related: First, Hurt, Losing)
"Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts."
- Desi Arnaz
(Related: Senate)
"Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any."
- Desi Arnaz
(Related: Career)
"Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: Life, Forbidden, Lust, Man, State)
"My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make."
- Thomas Arnold
(Related: Men, Hope, Christian, Boys, Will)
"Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars."
- Tom Arnold
"There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Work, Idea, Dream, Career, Pressure, Tension, Wonder)
"Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Business, Economics, Public, Traveling)
"We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Care, Profit)
"In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved."
- Kenneth Joseph Arrow
(Related: Medical, Care, Information)
"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: People, Company, Cosmetics, Difference)
"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: Life, Goal, Purpose)
"I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Care, Deep)
"I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself."
- Jane Asher
(Related: Home, Being, Name, Now)
"After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career."
- Matthew Ashford
(Related: Character, Career, Trying)
"Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events."
- Matthew Ashford
(Related: Ideas, Cartoons, Enjoyment, Events, Relaxation)
"We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes."
- William Henry Ashley
(Related: Boats)
"It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country."
- William Henry Ashley
(Related: Country)
"I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Love, End, Months, Past)
"I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Love, Music, Career)
"I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Action, Care, Waiting)
"I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Life, Career, Now)
"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: War, Living, World, World war)
"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: War, Living, World, World war)
"I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously."
- Michael Aspel
(Related: People)
"I never pursued a career relentlessly."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Career)
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Peace, Heart)
"Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me."
- Chet Atkins
(Related: Care, May, Now, Will, Years)
"Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?"
- Christopher Atkins
"Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me."
- Christopher Atkins
"It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known."
- Robert Atkins
(Related: Body, Energy, Pretty, Will)
"I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider."
- Robert Atkins
(Related: Idea, Appetite, Weight)
"Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter."
- Rowan Atkinson
(Related: Money, Actor, Canada, Careers, Culture)
"I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else."
- Rowan Atkinson
(Related: Character, Care, Fun)
"People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile."
- David Attenborough
(Related: People, Animals, Care, Conservation)
"I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Car, Conscience, Driving, Fact, Hate)
"I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Time, Bed, Care, Land, Past, Right, Will)
"It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Care, Stars)
"In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes."
- David Attenborough
(Related: History, Fact, Old, Opinion, Opinions)
"I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: Care, Style)
"And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: Being, Care, Freedom)
"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Paradise, Impatience)
"On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life."
- John James Audubon
(Related: Life, Care, France, Ladies, Man, May)
"I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds."
- John James Audubon
(Related: Birds, English, Habits, Living, Man)
"Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?"
- John James Audubon
(Related: Hope, Succeed)
"Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them."
- John James Audubon
(Related: Music, Fishing, Hunting)
"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."
- Frank Auerbach
(Related: Imagination, Work, People, Beginning, Magic, Sense, Will)
"The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."
- Saint Aurelius Augustine
(Related: Soul, Blood, Spirit)
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Happiness, Life, Nature, Quality, Virtue, Care)
"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Will)
"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Lady, Harm, May, Suspicion, Woman)
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Appearance, Humility, Nothing, Opinion)
"When they searched my car, they said that they found a gasoline canister and I think duct tape. Who wouldn't have a gasoline canister on them when driving 3,000 miles across country?"
- Sherman Austin
(Related: Car, Country, Driving)
"My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Driving, Force, Mind)
"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds."
- Saint Teresa of Avila
(Related: Body, Care, Needs)
"Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary."
- Emanuel Ax
"The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves."
- David Axelrod
(Related: Health, Life, People, Ability, American, Building, Care, College, Country, Fact, Future, Job, Jobs, Kids, Right, Will)
"I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point."
- David Axelrod
(Related: People, Congress, Months, Reality, Reform, Will)
"Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money."
- Alan Ayckbourn
(Related: Men, Money, Women, Care)
"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Beauty, Music, People, Musicians)
"The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs."
- Charles Babbage
(Related: Men, Animals, Importance, Military)
"The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions."
- Charles Babbage
(Related: Wealth, Possessions)
"We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully."
- Bruce Babbitt
(Related: Work, God, Creation, Harmony, Obligation)
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
- Irving Babbitt
(Related: Revolution)
"Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."
- Irving Babbitt
(Related: Faith, Act, Care, Right, Thinking, Will)
"Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Caring, Children, Drugs, Responsibility)
"Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Family, Careers, Community, Help, School, Variety, Will)
"Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Medical, Care, Reason)
"A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener."
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
(Related: Necessity, Will)
"According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value."
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
(Related: Change, Work, Criticism, Praise, Principles, Value)
"What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition."
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
(Related: Performance, Ability, Content, Singing)
"My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them."
- Johannes Sebastian Bach
(Related: Music, Care, Folk)
"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Honesty, Conscience, Measure, Selfishness)
"The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here."
- John Bachman
(Related: Government, Possibility, Army, Nothing, President)
"I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears."
- Randy Bachman
(Related: Car, Time, First, Night, Project, Songs, Tears)
"If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!"
- Michele Bachmann
(Related: End, Medicine, Want)
"Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Health, American, Healthcare, Workers)
"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Religion, Care, Justice)
"The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Men, Fortune, Giving, Light, Sky, Stars)
"I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Car, Dreams, Action, Fun)
"There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Financial, Greed, Now)
"L.A. kind of scares me."
- Kevin Bacon
"I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family."
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
(Related: Family, Being)
"A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim."
- Robert Baden-Powell
"And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Day, Mind, Now, Reason)
"The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness."
- Bugs Baer
(Related: Ladies)
"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."
- Walter Bagehot
(Related: Car, God, Driving)
"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."
- David Bailey
(Related: Fashion, Girls, Witty)
"More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility."
- Leonard Bailey
(Related: Time, People, Chance, Responsibility, Waste)
"The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset."
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
(Related: Education, Purpose, Man, Sunset)
"I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans."
- Oksana Baiul
(Related: Love, Care, Fans)
"Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained."
- Fredrik Bajer
(Related: May, Necessity, Propaganda, Value)
"When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track."
- Buck Baker
(Related: Car, Money, Worry)
"Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well."
- Buck Baker
(Related: Car)
"Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll."
- Dusty Baker
(Related: Care, Help, Race, Summer)
"I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career."
- Ginger Baker
(Related: Career)
"Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care."
- Howard Baker
(Related: Education, Health, Balance, Care, Generations, Living)
"When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen."
- James Baker
(Related: Energy, Excess, Saying)
"One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains."
- Ray Stannard Baker
(Related: Separation)
"The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car."
- Ray Stannard Baker
(Related: Car, Men, Time, First, Man, Order, Woman)
"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."
- Russell Baker
(Related: Car, Efficiency)
"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."
- Russell Baker
(Related: Poetry, Loss, Public, Will)
"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."
- Russell Baker
(Related: People, Cowards, Fools)
"I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be."
- Tom Baker
(Related: Thought, Being, Detail)
"They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing."
- Jim Bakker
(Related: Car)
"The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me."
- Robert T. Bakker
(Related: Life, History, Career, Earth)
"Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Art, Animation, Cartoons)
"Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: History, World)
"The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks."
- Mikhail Bakunin
(Related: Banks, Deals, Privilege)
"I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game."
- Bob Balaban
(Related: Acting)
"Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs."
- John Baldacci
(Related: Health, Goal, Care, Nation, State)
"The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it."
- Adam Baldwin
(Related: People, Control, Careers, Key, Living)
"Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Fun, Play)
"Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: People, Actor, Career, Facts, Trouble)
"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Heart, Will)
"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
- James M. Baldwin
(Related: First, Mind)
"I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world."
- Stephen Baldwin
(Related: Money, Career, Living, World)
"I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."
- Christian Bale
"I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Children)
"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."
- J. G. Ballard
(Related: Car, Dreams, American, Assassination, Vietnam, World)
"What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths."
- J. G. Ballard
(Related: Fear, Children, Pleasure, Tomorrow)
"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
- Steve Ballmer
(Related: Cards, Company)
"The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Love, God, Christian, Trinity, Unity)
"Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Thought, Enjoyment, Key, Miser, World)
"Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: HusbDifference, Lady, Lies, Night)
"They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies."
- Afrika Bambaataa
(Related: Movies, Woman)
"I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone."
- Eric Bana
(Related: Home, Race)
"I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else."
- Antonio Banderas
(Related: Idea, Audiences, Career, Fans)
"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience."
- Albert Bandura
(Related: Experience, Actions, Reality)
"In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care."
- Lester Bangs
(Related: Time, Being, Care, Fact, Interest, Now)
"(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Car, Time, Thought, First)
"In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held."
- Dennis Banks
(Related: Unity)
"Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it."
- Ernie Banks
(Related: Business, Old, Talking, Today)
"I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico."
- Ernie Banks
(Related: Car)
"I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business."
- Ernie Banks
(Related: Business, Work, Career, Loyalty)
"And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care."
- Russell Banks
(Related: Love, People, Care, Want, Writers)
"Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Careers, Name, Now, Today, Will)
"I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Love, Thought, Control, Career, Paris, Style)
"People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: People, Hope, Acting, Career, Years)
"I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Care)
"You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Life, Career, Rest)
"Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach."
- Henry Campbell Bannerman
(Related: Answers, Force, Racing, Security)
"When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Society, Mother, Career, World)
"I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Car, War, School, Training)
"I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Age, Music, Acting, Career, Running)
"Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired."
- William Banting
(Related: Business, Life, Men, Anxiety, Career, Order, Years)
"Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Actor)
"Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Career, Friends, Television)
"I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: People)
"Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Work, Successful, Character, Cartoons, Hard work)
"My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Men, Cartoons, Fans, Quest)
"Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Hell, Publicity, Want)
"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Cartoons)
"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Car, Fishing, Hate, Want)
"I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Idea, Bible, Cartoons, First)
"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Life, Dream, Cartoons)
"I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Business, Career, Community, Congress, Lady, Labor, President, states, United, Will)
"This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be."
- Javier Bardem
(Related: Actor, states, United, World)
"My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully."
- Javier Bardem
(Related: Truth, Answers, Question)
"I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost."
- Javier Bardem
(Related: News, Night, Spain)
"I don't know how to drive a car."
- Javier Bardem
(Related: Car)
"I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making."
- Javier Bardem
(Related: Movies, Care, Worth)
"And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'"
- Javier Bardem
(Related: Months, Office, Promotion, Reality)
"If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: People, Care, Fame, Tomorrow)
"I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises."
- Bob Barker
(Related: Experience, Talent, Care, Living, May, Surprises)
"To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world."
- Ronnie Barker
(Related: People, Career, Job, World)
"I don't care what people think. people are stupid."
- Charles Barkley
(Related: People, Care)
"I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts."
- Carl Barks
(Related: Old, Years)
"I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make."
- Carl Barks
(Related: Circumstances, Mistakes, states, United)
"I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it."
- Carl Barks
(Related: World, Writing, Years)
"I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them."
- Carl Barks
(Related: Thought, Cynicism, Hell)
"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
- Carl Barks
(Related: Sense)
"There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face."
- Carl Barks
(Related: Life, Difference)
"A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats."
- Neal Barnard
(Related: Diet, Heart, Care, Oil, Want)
"Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. "I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves," he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one."
- Fred Barnes
(Related: Men, Care, Problems, Republicans, Will)
"Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Car, Waiting)
"I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them."
- Matthew Barney
(Related: Car, Culture)
"An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow."
- Lawrence Barrett
(Related: Actor, Snow)
"Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles."
- Rona Barrett
(Related: Enemies)
"For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded."
- James M. Barrie
(Related: First)
"It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all."
- Isaac Barrow
(Related: Thoughts, Choice)
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Dance)
"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Car, Dogs, Nothing, Right)
"'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'."
- Dave Barry
"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Car, Racing)
"American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it."
- Dave Barry
(Related: American, Will)
"I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Car, Hate, Problems, Want)
"I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Care)
"Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Thought, Name, Word)
"I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Friend, Cartoons, Sleep)
"I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Thought, Cartoons)
"I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed."
- Lionel Barrymore
(Related: Actor, Care)
"Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications."
- Peter Bart
(Related: Love, Now)
"If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth."
- Maria Bartiromo
(Related: Car, Money, Growth, Income, Machine, Will, Winter)
"Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy."
- Dan Bartlett
(Related: May)
"The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy."
- Billy Barty
(Related: Hair, Name)
"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
(Related: People, Career)
"They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses."
- Abu Bakar Bashir
(Related: Muslim, Leaders, Lies, May)
"I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'"
- Count Basie
(Related: Business, Cards, Fancy, Names)
"The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Quality, Care, Now, Treatment)
"According to the committee's findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Committee, Network)
"I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla."
- Jason Bateman
(Related: Life, Now)
"I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image."
- Alan Bates
(Related: Work, Career)
"Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers."
- Henry Walter Bates
(Related: Flowers, Numbers)
"The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy."
- Kathy Bates
(Related: People, Privacy, Projects)
"Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings."
- Kathy Bates
(Related: Time)
"For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda."
- Phyllis Battelle
(Related: Wedding)
"You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care."
- Max Baucus
(Related: Health, Care, Income, Worry)
"I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either."
- Gary Bauer
(Related: Government, Health, Bureaucracy, Care, Company, Decisions, Washington)
"Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of."
- Richard Baxter
(Related: Time, Nothing)
"I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success."
- Michael Bay
(Related: Success, Business, People, Care)
"Fast cars are my only vice."
- Michael Bay
(Related: Vice)
"Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Life, Financial, Bank account, Cause, Credit, Numbers, Ruin, Security, Wrong)
"Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Business, Cards, Credit)
"I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Care, Detail, Film, Passion)
"I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Time, Work, Character, Thoughts, Day, End, Excess, Leisure, Perspective)
"We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future."
- Daniel Carter Beard
(Related: Men, Future)
"It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism."
- Mary Ritter Beard
(Related: Journalism, Press)
"But what is past my help is past my care."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Care, Help, Past)
"Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Sex, Magic, Pleasure, Woman, Words)
"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Society)
"Happy is the nation without a history."
- Cesare Beccaria
(Related: History, Nation)
"Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: Americans, Care)
"What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: Rights, Healthcare)
"I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly."
- Jeff Beck
(Related: Care, Fact, Job, Rules, Song)
"Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals."
- Martha Beck
(Related: Caring, Quick)
"It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host."
- Franz Beckenbauer
(Related: Opportunity, Career, Friends, Lies, World)
"The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago."
- Boris Becker
(Related: Blind, Emotions, Eyes, Fans, Horror, Light, Worship)
"I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now."
- Boris Becker
(Related: Care, First, Man, Now)
"I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card."
- Victoria Beckham
(Related: Humor, Friend, Gold, Man, Sense)
"I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles."
- Victoria Beckham
(Related: Celebrity)
"These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara."
- Victoria Beckham
(Related: People, Thinking)
"I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums."
- Gerry Beckley
(Related: People)
"If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it."
- Gerry Beckley
(Related: Experience, Martin, Years)
"Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion."
- Kabir Bedi
(Related: Men, Emotion)
"I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid."
- Samantha Bee
(Related: Canada, Now)
"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Strength)
"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Greatness, Strength, Being, Glory, Lies, Man, Right)
"Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Money, Cards, Gambling, Giving)
"We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq."
- Rand Beers
(Related: Development, Driving, Iraq, May, Office, Suicide)
"Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win."
- Paul Begala
(Related: Politicians)
"As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions."
- Michael Behe
"Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Life, Living)
"A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Car, Culture, Man, Wind)
"Germans make nice cars."
- Jason Behr
"My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games."
- Ed Belfour
(Related: Career, Games)
"Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely."
- Vissarion Belinsky
(Related: Knowledge, Inspiration, Ideas, Will, Worry)
"We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?"
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Love, Computers, Race, Right, World)
"I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you."
- Catherine Bell
"People think I'm crazy and reckless but I'm absolutely not... I'm soooo safe and soooo careful and I won't do anything that feels like I could break something."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: People)
"I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Car, Movies)
"I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Love, Act, Caring, Day, Deep, Friends, May)
"I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Time, Animals, Cats, Dogs, Example, Taste)
"I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Time, Animals, Cats, Dogs, Example, Taste)
"I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Car, Movies)
"Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore."
- Kristen Bell
"Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore."
- Kristen Bell
"I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Love, Act, Caring, Day, Deep, Friends, May)
"We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Abuse, Children, Exploitation, Labor, Open, Public)
"It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Children, May, World)
"New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Work, Labor, Legislation, Prostitution)
"Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Children, Countries, Suffering)
"Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Children, Rights)
"The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Dream, Actions, Being, Children, Laws, Needs)
"The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Education, Children, Poor, Solution)
"UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Food, Children)
"While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Technology, Countries, Revolution, World)
"Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Action, Information, Problems, Visions, World)
"Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Work, Children, Corporate, Help, Research, Support)
"Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Being, Children, Law, Opinions)
"In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Leadership, Time, Financial, Benefits, Children, Corporate, Expertise, World)
"In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Equality, Education, Health, Values, Children, Corporate, Mission, Protection, World)
"I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Change, Children, World)
"I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer."
- Carol Bellamy
"I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: War, Hope, Children, Years)
"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Age, Change, Children, Completion, Example, Law, Legislation, School)
"Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Policy, Children, Influence, Past)
"By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Rights)
"And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Work, Knowledge, Children, Rights, Nations, Problems)
"And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Dignity, Discrimination, Rights, Practice)
"Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Education, Children, Exercise, Future, Rights)
"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Hope, Books, May)
"I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Writing)
"A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately."
- Eleanor Robson Belmont
(Related: Car, Taste)
"From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity."
- Richie Benaud
(Related: Humanity)
"I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Being, Career, Film)
"Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: History, Work, Thought, Being, Cinema, Content, Film, Pretty)
"We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Care, World)
"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Strength, Career, Mind)
"Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord."
- Pope Benedict XVI
(Related: Brothers, Sisters)
"Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity."
- Peter Benenson
(Related: Being, Countries, Imprisonment, Murder, World)
"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
- Stephen Vincent Benet
(Related: Life, Day, Dying)
"I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff."
- Annette Bening
(Related: Work, People, Chance, Theater, World)
"The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Care, Job)
"If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: History, Time, Car, Famous)
"Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye."
- Jonathan Bennett
(Related: Time, Care, Eye)
"Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible."
- Michael Bennett
(Related: Health, Thought, Care, Vote)
"But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends."
- Robert Foster Bennett
(Related: Experience, Politics, Father, Care, Enemies, Friends, Help, May, Trying)
"I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world."
- Tony Bennett
(Related: Time, Career, World)
"I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too."
- Jack Benny
(Related: Want)
"We want to christen every city that Kris has played in during his professional career."
- Anna Benson
(Related: Career, Want)
"I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job."
- Craig Benson
(Related: Business, Time, Careers, Job, Legislators, Running)
"As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am."
- George Benson
(Related: Change, Career, Cats, Desire, Jazz, Pleasure)
"My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer."
- George Benson
(Related: Life, Career, First, Guitar, Mind)
"I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of."
- George Bentham
(Related: Determination, Career, Reason)
"I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species."
- George Bentham
(Related: First)
"In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children."
- Robert Benton
(Related: Age, People, America, Being, Care, Children, Old, Parents)
"I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government."
- Lloyd Bentsen
(Related: Government, Time, Career, Community, Learning, Scouting)
"If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel."
- Julie Benz
(Related: Character)
"You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: End)
"I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Time, Career)
"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Being, Care)
"You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Fun, Universe)
"In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire."
- Bruce Beresford
(Related: Will)
"By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD."
- Paul Berg
(Related: Time, Career, Research)
"Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film."
- Peter Berg
(Related: Truth, America, Film, Pretty, Voting)
"In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Literature)
"Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations."
- Michael Bergdahl
(Related: People, Control, Values, Care, Customer, Right)
"I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Women, Being, Career)
"We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart."
- Hans Berger
(Related: Heart)
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
- John Berger
(Related: Poverty, Priorities, Rest, Result, World)
"What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?"
- Michael Bergin
"I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another."
- Michael Bergin
"I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Money, Care)
"If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest."
- Silvio Berlusconi
(Related: Care, Conflict, Interest, Talk)
"I am careful with my material and presentation."
- Shelley Berman
"The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Performance, Appearance, First)
"Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'"
- Sarah Bernhardt
(Related: Care, Mind)
"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"
- Sarah Bernhardt
(Related: Beauty, Art, Joy, Poverty)
"For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal."
- Carl Bernstein
(Related: Time, First)
"The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context."
- Carl Bernstein
(Related: Business, Quality, Accuracy, News, Quantity, Today)
"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
- Carl Bernstein
(Related: Truth, People, Americans, Being, Contempt, Culture, Information, Journalism, Popular, Reality, Today)
"The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised."
- Carl Bernstein
(Related: Fear, Environment, First, Information, May, Pressure, Questions, Will)
"I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions."
- Elmer Bernstein
(Related: Car, Emotions, Film, Years)
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there."
- Yogi Berra
"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
- Marion Berry
(Related: Car, Police, Promise)
"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope."
- Wendell Berry
(Related: Hope, Care, Earth, Responsibility)
"We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything."
- Michael Berryman
(Related: Home, Day, Profit)
"I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those."
- Bernardo Bertolucci
(Related: Care, Film, Office, Post)
"It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Health, American, Care, World)
"Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Health, Wealth, Care, Healthcare)
"Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Health, War, Care, Competition, Doctors, Hospitals, Right, Talk)
"I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Health, Love, Care, Help, Right, Suffering, Trying)
"The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Decision, Care, Eyes, Open, Will)
"We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Health, Care, Choices)
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
- George Best
(Related: Money, Birds, Rest)
"When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you."
- Nuno Bettencourt
(Related: Business, Career)
"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else."
- Ugo Betti
(Related: Life, Nothing)
"One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't."
- Lin Biao
(Related: Truth, Word, Worth)
"Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded."
- Joe Biden
(Related: People, American, Care, Public, Reward, Running)
"I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all."
- Justin Bieber
(Related: Money, Eye)
"I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for."
- Michael Biehn
(Related: People, Care, Film, Play)
"I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy."
- Michael Biehn
(Related: Career, Feeling)
"I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care."
- Jessica Biel
(Related: Sports, Life, Care, Clothes, Makeup)
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Intelligence, Government, Civilization, Office, Republican)
"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: People, Care, London)
"Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Care, Man)
"Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf."
- Earl Derr Biggers
"Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Business, Health, Americans, Care, Driving, Drugs, Physicians, State, World)
"Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Education, Time, Behavior, Care, Problems, Research, School)
"Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary."
- Jason Biggs
(Related: Sex, Being, Pretty)
"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: Life, Rights, Songs)
"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: History, Art, Language, Painting, Play, Song, World)
"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."
- Steven Biko
(Related: Care)
"The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy."
- Buffalo Bill
(Related: Boys, Enemy, Fire)
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Truth, Excess)
"I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Time, First, World)
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Life, Cards)
"Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'"
- Barbara Billingsley
(Related: Dreams, Day)
"A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth."
- Rachel Bilson
(Related: Car, Party, Tongue, Years)
"My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel."
- Rachel Bilson
(Related: Car, Adventure, Being, Will)
"But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Being)
"Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured."
- Brad Bird
(Related: Funny, People, Feet)
"Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it."
- Caroline Bird
(Related: Femininity)
"While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course."
- Larry Bird
(Related: Nature, Trust, Day, Facts, Formula, Future, Will)
"As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game."
- Larry Bird
(Related: Care, Want)
"When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more."
- Jane Birkin
(Related: School)
"The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing."
- Elizabeth Bishop
(Related: Dreams)
"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?"
- Jim Bishop
(Related: Car, Love, Open, Parents, Patience, Treasure)
"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been."
- Jim Bishop
(Related: Men, Care, Want)
"We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Care)
"We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: People, Care, Choice)
"Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Health, Care, Prevention)
"Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Care, Community)
"Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Leader, Care, Research, Treatment, World)
"I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life."
- Rob Bishop
(Related: Life, Career, Cause, Fight, Rights, Value, Will)
"We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care."
- Tim Bishop
(Related: Health, American, Care, Company, Job, Right)
"When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Intention, Practice)
"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Intention, Man, Practice)
"My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Men)
"Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us."
- Mark Bittman
(Related: Day, Want, World)
"TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty."
- Bill Bixby
(Related: Honesty, Censure, Force)
"It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves."
- Bjork
(Related: Nature, People, Care)
"Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move."
- Cilla Black
(Related: Career, Nothing)
"The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in."
- Cilla Black
(Related: Advice)
"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again."
- Hugo Black
(Related: Advice, Man, Play, Tennis)
"We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it."
- Jack Black
(Related: Music, Career)
"I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Mother, People, Earth, Harmony, Living, Words)
"It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Art, Chance, World)
"When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?"
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Hell, Wonder)
"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Mothers)
"We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Invention, Mothers, Play, Songs)
"Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Music, Creativity, Being, England, Girls, Musicians)
"The fans have been very nice to me and I might say that all those fans that Frank said went away is not so."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Fans)
"My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Friend, Being, Job, Will)
"Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: People, Mind, Questions, Talking)
"I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Music, Mother, Earth, Writing)
"I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Artists, Sculpture)
"First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Time, Boss, Decisions, First, Motives, Question)
"Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Music, Boss, Arguments, Open)
"Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: EnglFriends)
"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Mothers, Old, Opinions)
"I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Life, Women, Fans, Name, Woman, Years)
"I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Wife, Career, First, Kids, Pretty)
"I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Thought, Dress, First)
"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Mothers, Road)
"I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Mothers, Old)
"I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Computer, Months, Now, Possibilities, Windows)
"I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Career, Nothing)
"My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Fame)
"As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Genius, Thought)
"I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Hope, Years)
"I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Work, Months, Mothers)
"It was a wild time - a time that I don't miss anymore. But then again, I'm 62 years old now and I think that lifestyle would probably put me where Frank's at now."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Time, Now, Old, Years)
"In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Influence, Opinion)
"I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Will)
"I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Friendship, Brother, Years)
"I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people."
- Karen Black
(Related: Work, People, Career)
"I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax."
- Honor Blackman
(Related: Quiet, Relax)
"I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar."
- Ritchie Blackmore
(Related: Car, Guitar)
"They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped."
- Kenneth Blackwell
(Related: Change, Reality)
"I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today."
- Otis Blackwell
(Related: Career, Hate, Today)
"When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference."
- Nina Blackwood
(Related: Entertainment, Press)
"What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it."
- Joan Blades
(Related: Successful, Care)
"Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers."
- Joan Blades
(Related: Work, Flexibility, Jobs, Parents)
"Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education."
- Rod Blagojevich
(Related: Education, Health, Care, Chance, Civil rights, Giving, Privilege, Public)
"Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do."
- Rod Blagojevich
(Related: Health, Men, Women, Care, Fact, Woman, Years)
"I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given."
- Dennis C. Blair
(Related: Time, Decisions, Fault, Past, Will)
"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."
- Gary Ryan Blair
(Related: Goals, Careers)
"Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care."
- Linda Blair
(Related: Care, Kids, Violence)
"I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out."
- Linda Blair
(Related: Mother, Control, Vision, Animals, Dogs, Losing)
"I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border."
- Edward Blake
(Related: Fear, Beginning, Carnival, Crime)
"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
- Eubie Blake
(Related: Care)
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
- William Blake
(Related: Imagination, Nature, Eyes, Joy, Man, Ridicule, Tears)
"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."
- William Blake
(Related: Men, Care, Worth)
"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
- William Blake
(Related: Love, Care, Despair, Heaven, Hell)
"It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next."
- Jolene Blalock
"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career."
- Cate Blanchett
(Related: Power, People, Acting, Actors, Career)
"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."
- Cate Blanchett
(Related: Children)
"Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care."
- Kathleen Blanco
(Related: Care, Choice, Elderly, State, Want)
"I care for you. I want to make life safer and better for you."
- Kathleen Blanco
(Related: Life, Care, Want)
"God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor."
- Kathleen Blanco
(Related: God, Care, Man, State)
"At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility."
- Kathleen Blanco
(Related: Responsibility, State, Wrong)
"And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence."
- William Peter Blatty
(Related: Truth, Career, Comedy, Existence, Memory)
"This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time."
- Yasmine Bleeth
(Related: Love, Time, Credit, Eating)
"Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic."
- Brenda Blethyn
"I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that."
- Corbin Bleu
(Related: Voice)
"I write very slowly."
- Carla Bley
"When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo."
- Carla Bley
(Related: People, Play)
"When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything."
- Carla Bley
(Related: Music, Jazz)
"When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key."
- Carla Bley
(Related: France, Key, Traveling)
"There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all."
- Carla Bley
(Related: Music, Nothing, World)
"One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'."
- Carla Bley
(Related: Art, Music)
"Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best."
- Carla Bley
(Related: Talent, Composers, Living, Writing)
"It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke."
- Carla Bley
(Related: Today)
"I don't need much coaxing."
- Carla Bley
"Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that."
- Carla Bley
"Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving."
- Carla Bley
(Related: Music, Listening)
"I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food."
- Carla Bley
(Related: Food, America, Traveling)
"I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance."
- Carla Bley
(Related: Ignorance)
"I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano."
- Carla Bley
(Related: Music, Father, Learning, Old, Play, Years)
"I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener."
- Carla Bley
(Related: End, Jazz, Play, World)
"I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out."
- Carla Bley
"I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle."
- Carla Bley
"The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony."
- Hans Blix
(Related: Fear, Bugs, Country, May, State)
"I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Work, Business, Career, Heroes, Inspiring)
"My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Life, Career, Childhood, Knight, Play)
"I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Career, Right, Trying)
"I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Beginning, Career, Learning)
"Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Career, Knight)
"We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Health, Care, Employees)
"We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Legal, Control, Law, Security)
"Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: People, Canada, Country, Doctors, Needs)
"I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats."
- Ella R. Bloor
(Related: People, Boats, Faces)
"The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Spiritual, World)
"The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care."
- Sidney Blumenthal
(Related: Health, Policy, Strategy, Care, Foreign policy, Mistakes)
"On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made."
- Sidney Blumenthal
(Related: Health, Care, Error)
"I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them."
- David Blunkett
(Related: People, Cards)
"Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog."
- David Blunkett
(Related: Danger, Old, Training, Walking, Will)
"Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction."
- James Blunt
(Related: Experience, Father, Army, Career, Direction, Help, Job, Parents, Wage)
"I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly."
- Nellie Bly
(Related: Life, God, Desire)
"While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman."
- Giovanni Boccaccio
(Related: Men, Hens, Service, Woman)
"And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares."
- Bodhidharma
"About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks."
- Sherwood Boehlert
(Related: Americans, Light, Oil)
"Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'"
- John Boehner
(Related: American, Healthcare, President, Saying)
"Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life."
- John Boehner
(Related: Life, Research)
"Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions."
- John Boehner
(Related: Health, Mistake, Care, Democrats, Vote)
"I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes."
- John Boehner
(Related: Debt, Energy, Tax, Healthcare, Taxes, Trade, Want, Washington)
"Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble."
- Louise Bogan
(Related: Work)
"Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier."
- Louise Bogan
(Related: Ideas, Language)
"Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement."
- David Bohm
(Related: Thought, Attention, Question, Reality, Thinking)
"Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No."
- David Boies
(Related: Music, Sharing)
"Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore."
- Brian Boitano
(Related: People, Attention, Care, Forget, Now, Public, Right, Will)
"I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say."
- Derek Bok
(Related: Caring, Community, Will)
"O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast."
- Anne Boleyn
(Related: Death, Quiet, Rest)
"I don't do carrots."
- John Bolton
"You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care."
- Michael Bolton
(Related: Care, Word)
"Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist."
- Michael Bolton
(Related: Business, Home, Artist, Career, Pursuit, Songs, Want)
"Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old."
- Erma Bombeck
"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Car, Children, Saying, Windows)
"I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Women)
"I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Courage, Dignity, May, State)
"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Car, Marriage)
"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Car, Kids)
"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Fire, Housework, Theory)
"Never have more children than you have car windows."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Car, Children, Windows)
"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Car)
"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Car, Time)
"People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Wife, HusbPeople, Care, Rules)
"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Business, Society, Mother, Gifts, Years)
"Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?"
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: First)
"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Courage, Children, Moments)
"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Car)
"Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Health, Life, Technology, Growth, Agriculture, Care, Defense, Economy, Future, Job, Will)
"It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Health, Time, Control, Care, Chance, Economy, Jobs, Needs)
"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."
- Edward Bond
(Related: History, People, Living)
"Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action."
- Julian Bond
(Related: Time, Action, First)
"I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Progress, Care, states, United)
"Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment."
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
(Related: Care)
"Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball."
- Barry Bonds
(Related: Life, Baseball, Care)
"My career is an open book, but my life is not."
- Barry Bonds
(Related: Life, Career, Open)
"I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level."
- Barry Bonds
(Related: Performance, Day, Right)
"I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Art, Beauty, Love, Building, Career, Desire, Film)
"When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Education, Health, People, Care, Countries, Rights, Generosity, Human rights, Principles, Solidarity)
"My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Peace, Actions, Brothers, Calculations, Country, Motives)
"I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan."
- John Bonham
(Related: Drinking, Tea)
"If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about."
- John Bonham
(Related: Money, Thought, Care, Nothing)
"There are things we can all do to help, including carpooling and traveling only when necessary, in order to save gas during this time. However, there is also something more important which we can all do: buy only the gas which you need."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: Time, Help, Order, Traveling)
"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."
- Edward de Bono
(Related: Car, Faults, First, May)
"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."
- Edward de Bono
(Related: Car, Intelligence, Power, People, Poor)
"When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people."
- Pat Boone
(Related: Movies, People, Caring, Democrats, Liberal, Television)
"I don't particularly care how many records we sell any more because we've kind of bought all the equipment we want to buy."
- Sean Booth
(Related: Care, Want)
"The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice."
- William Booth
(Related: Career, Income, Profession)
"I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died."
- Lizzie Andrew Borden
(Related: Mother, Sister, Care)
"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
- Jorge Luis Borges
(Related: Time, Fire)
"My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply."
- Norman Borlaug
(Related: Food, Time, Survival, Agriculture, Invention, Man)
"There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method."
- Max Born
"Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career."
- Alexander Borodin
(Related: Love, Music, People, Career)
"To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different."
- Ralph Boston
(Related: Life, Pet, Thought, Day, Leading, Years)
"We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions."
- Leonard Boswell
(Related: Health, Healthcare, Retirement, Workers)
"Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care."
- Alain de Botton
(Related: Life, Successful, Care, Open, Priorities, Projects)
"I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own."
- Matthew Bourne
(Related: Life, Thought, Pretty)
"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has."
- Randolph Bourne
(Related: Society)
"In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made."
- Caprice Bourret
(Related: Career)
"My whole career - I have been really lucky."
- Caprice bourret
(Related: Career)
"Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that."
- Caprice Bourret
(Related: Money, Care, Name)
"Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time."
- James Bovard
(Related: Time, Rights, Opposition)
"Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Children)
"It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not."
- Erskine Bowles
(Related: Positive, Difference, Will)
"Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Health, Medical, Care, Company, Decisions, professionals)
"To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump."
- Geoffrey Boycott
(Related: Car, Idea)
"Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality."
- Allen Boyd
(Related: Education, Government, Health, Men, Women, Benefits, Care, Nation, Promises, Reality, Rhetoric)
"An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel."
- Paul D. Boyer
(Related: Travel, Career)
"Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures."
- Paul D. Boyer
(Related: Family, Day, Driving, Now)
"I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Love)
"As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Time, People, Caring)
"I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Life, Act, Career, Rest, Support)
"We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties."
- Anna C. Brackett
(Related: Possessions)
"The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Right)
"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."
- F. H. Bradley
(Related: Fear, Care, Man)
"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Death, Bravery)
"I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while."
- Terry Bradshaw
(Related: Work, Care, Fish, Hurt, Will)
"Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly."
- Robert Brady
"I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous."
- Sarah Brady
(Related: Time, Thought, Now, Right)
"I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: People, Care, Divorce, Kids, Saying)
"If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Work, Mother, Corporations, Day, Parents)
"That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really."
- Billy Bragg
(Related: Change, Career, World)
"Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Time, Improvement)
"I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Wife, English, Poor, Talk)
"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos."
- Kenneth Branagh
(Related: Careers, Shakespeare)
"I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet."
- Kenneth Branagh
(Related: Trying)
"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour."
- Georg Brandes
(Related: Time, Day)
"When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!"
- Jonathan Brandis
(Related: Weekend)
"Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field."
- Bill Brandt
(Related: Work, Embarrassment, Sense, Wonder)
"The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Music, Careers, Name, Names)
"My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Car, Home, Mother, Old, Years)
"I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work."
- Benjamin Bratt
(Related: Men, Work, Death, Actor, Boredom, Career, Will, Years)
"There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Country, Spiritual)
"Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Population, Vote)
"Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Lies, Magic)
"New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Women, Party)
"People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Experience, Finance, Government, History, People, Committee, Common sense, First, Senate, State, Want, Woman)
"So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Government, America, Congress, Democracy, Laws, Want)
"The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Class, Diversity, Fact, Interest)
"The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: People, Failure, Denial, Right, Vote, Voting)
"The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: War, Country, Fact, Iraq, Saying)
"Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?"
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Fight, Honor)
"The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Finance, Money, Women, Office, Reason, Rules, Senate)
"To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: People, Constitution)
"We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Development, Jobs)
"We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Education, Children, Environment)
"If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Iraq)
"I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: People, Attention, Challenge, President, states, United)
"The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Victory, Civil rights, Racism)
"I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: People, America, American, Will)
"It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: President, Woman)
"I'm committed to universal health coverage and education."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Education, Health)
"Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: People, Tax, Giving)
"I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: America, Confidence, Key, Needs, Spiritual, Tomorrow)
"I think Americans want to believe in this country again."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Americans, Country, Want)
"I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Children, Parents, Responsibility, Retirement, Security)
"I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: People, Hope, American, Answers, Want)
"I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Future, Generations, Order, Responsibility)
"I want people who believe in my message and where I am on issues to support me."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: People, Support, Want)
"I want to rebuild America."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: America, Want)
"I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Senate)
"I was very productive as a senator for my state."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: State)
"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Country, Direction)
"All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: People, Talk, Want)
"I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Results, Senate)
"I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Women, People, Being, Civil rights, Now, Open)
"And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Being, Problems, Woman)
"Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again."
- Toni Braxton
"Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply."
- T. Berry Brazelton
(Related: Care, Mistakes, Parents)
"To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean."
- James H. Breasted
(Related: Civilization, Doubt, Facts, Now, Present, Study, Writer)
"It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science."
- James H. Breasted
(Related: Science, Achievement, Career, Study, Unity)
"In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained."
- James H. Breasted
(Related: Life, Time, Civilization, Knowledge, Evolution, First, Universe)
"I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards."
- Berke Breathed
(Related: Cards, Holidays)
"When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'"
- John Breaux
(Related: Health, God, People, Care, Defense, Tax)
"And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene."
- John Breaux
(Related: Government, Health, Education, Care, Help, Now, Play, Right, State, Trying, Washington)
"The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves."
- Bertolt Brecht
"We're careful not to saturate people."
- David Brenner
(Related: People)
"I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way."
- Sydney Brenner
(Related: Home, Travel, Evening, University)
"Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire."
- Jordana Brewster
(Related: Work, Night)
"No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after."
- Edie Brickell
(Related: Careers, Famous, Songs)
"A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me."
- Edie Brickell
(Related: Car, Guitar, Old, Songs, Woman)
"But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically."
- Edie Brickell
(Related: Reason)
"My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went."
- Beau Bridges
(Related: Family, Brother, Favorite)
"Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day."
- Lloyd Bridges
(Related: Time, Day)
"Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom."
- John Bright
(Related: Thought, Cities, Effort, Reform, United, Worth)
"Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated."
- John Bright
(Related: Care, Elections, Man, Old, Right)
"I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me."
- Susie Bright
(Related: Time, People, Beginning, Books, Career, Editors, Name, Publishing)
"I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us."
- Wilford Brimley
(Related: People, Generations, Land)
"We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Failure, Possibility)
"After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Attitude, Body, First, Pregnancy)
"The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'."
- Morgan Brittany
(Related: Time, Character, Career, Evil, Twilight, Zone)
"Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over."
- Morgan Brittany
(Related: Actors, Career)
"Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids."
- David Broder
(Related: Care, Tax, Kids, Priorities)
"I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work."
- Harold Brodkey
(Related: Work, Being, Pressure)
"There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care."
- Adam Brody
(Related: Care, Conversation, Talking)
"What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place."
- Tom Brokaw
(Related: Job)
"You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life."
- Jacob Bronowski
(Related: Life, Time, Career, End, May, Will)
"Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long."
- Anita Brookner
(Related: Life, Men, Care, End, Old)
"There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: Career, Film, Occupation, World)
"The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Music, Soul, Heart, Angels, Burden, Care, Christmas, Earth, Old, Song)
"In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Action, Weather)
"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: Bible, American, Books, English, Mind, Newspapers)
"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: People, Superiority, Knowledge, Breeding)
"This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful."
- Pierce Brosnan
(Related: Government, America, Care, Man, President)
"As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: People, Care, Celebrity)
"For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic."
- James Broughton
(Related: Magic)
"I could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove."
- Bobby Brown
(Related: Time, Care)
"I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Time, Basketball, Care, Girls, Needs, Play)
"The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Care, Words)
"You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care."
- Corrine Brown
(Related: Health, Care)
"There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window."
- Dan Brown
(Related: Car, Stress)
"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep."
- Helen Gurley Brown
(Related: Successful, Career, Envy, Now, Woman)
"I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with."
- J. Carter Brown
(Related: People, Key)
"Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth."
- J. Carter Brown
(Related: God, Earth, Want)
"I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question."
- J. Carter Brown
(Related: Luck, Question)
"I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits."
- J. Carter Brown
(Related: Music, Poetry, Spirits)
"The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time."
- J. Carter Brown
(Related: Time, American, Building, Now)
"There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily."
- J. Carter Brown
"No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience."
- J. Carter Brown
(Related: Experience, Time, Garden, Now, Will)
"There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way."
- J. Carter Brown
(Related: Wrong)
"You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves."
- James Brown
(Related: God, Care, Help)
"We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge."
- Jerry Brown
(Related: Power, Equality, Family, Challenge, Charity, Community)
"Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all."
- Jerry Brown
(Related: Medical, Food, Failure, American, Care, Dignity, Income, Jobs, Production, Talking, Welfare)
"I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some."
- Julie Brown
(Related: Thought)
"I didn't hear what he said and really don't care."
- Larry Brown
(Related: Care)
"If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present."
- Les Brown
(Related: Feelings, Ability, May, Past, Present)
"Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential."
- Les Brown
(Related: Cards, Fate, Play, Potential, Right)
"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."
- Louise Brown
(Related: People)
"You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Car)
"When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada."
- Ruth Brown
(Related: People, Years)
"Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not."
- Scott Brown
(Related: Health, People, Attitude, American, Care, Force, Opposition, Public, Washington)
"Nearly one in ten Americans are still out of work. And still, the President and Congress are focused on ramming through their health-care bill, whatever it takes, whatever the cost."
- Scott Brown
(Related: Health, Work, Americans, Congress, President)
"In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?"
- Scott Brown
(Related: Health, America, Care, President, Speech, Taxes, Will)
"The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt."
- Scott Brown
(Related: Business, Health, Work, People, America, Care, Debt, State, Will)
"Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won."
- Sherrod Brown
(Related: Change, Food, Government, Rights, Safety, Security, Workers)
"The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars."
- Vanessa Brown
(Related: Food, Soul, America, Being, Driving, Sun)
"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(Related: Caring, Children, Integrity)
"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(Related: Happiness, Life, Decision, Misery, Will)
"Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(Related: Care, Children, Gardens)
"Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care."
- Sam Brownback
(Related: Time, Family, Care, Children, Pain, Voice)
"I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about."
- Sam Brownback
(Related: People, American, Care)
"The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice."
- Harry Browne
(Related: War, Government, Career, Choice, Misfortune, Poverty)
"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Wonders)
"There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Faces, May)
"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"
- Robert Browning
(Related: First, Song)
"When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death."
- Tammy Bruce
(Related: Death, Health, People, Americans, Care)
"Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Death, Women, Cause, Leading)
"But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Lonely)
"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: People, Character, Care)
"I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens."
- Bear Bryant
(Related: Career, Rest)
"Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself."
- Paul Bryant
(Related: Character, Winning, Care, Class, Pride)
"Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved."
- Gavin Bryars
(Related: Development, Action, Cards, Manipulation)
"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
- James Bryce
(Related: Worth)
"My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry."
- Bill Bryson
(Related: Children, First)
"Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
(Related: War, Government, Conflict, Years)
"I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career."
- Sergei Bubka
(Related: Experience, Time, Sports, Athletes, Career)
"McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin."
- Pat Buchanan
"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."
- Pearl S. Buck
(Related: Society, People, Civilization, Fear, Deserted, Old, Right)
"It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other."
- Lindsey Buckingham
(Related: Time, Care)
"I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs."
- Betty Buckley
(Related: Love, Favorite, Songs)
"Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature."
- James L. Buckley
(Related: Nature, Angels, Career, Congress, May, Reason, Service, Temptation, Vote, Yield)
"I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career."
- Harold Budd
(Related: Career, Ending)
"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill."
- Buddha
(Related: People, Care, Will, Words)
"I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through."
- Bill Budge
(Related: Art, Engineering, Space)
"You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by."
- Frederick Buechner
(Related: Life, Rest)
"To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading."
- Jimmy Buffett
(Related: Time, Leisure, Reading, Today)
"Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care."
- Jimmy Buffett
(Related: Apathy, Care, Ignorance)
"There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason."
- John Buford
(Related: Work, Fighting, Hesitation, Man, Reason)
"I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy."
- Deborah Bull
(Related: Diet, People, Energy)
"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."
- Deborah Bull
(Related: Ballet, Career, Dancing)
"Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that."
- Sandra Bullock
(Related: Forget, Makeup)
"People learn to lead because they care about something."
- Charlotte Bunch
(Related: People, Care)
"I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that."
- Gisele Bundchen
(Related: Thought, Being)
"It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: Body, Energy, Want)
"Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: Health, Baby, Today)
"Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself."
- Basil Bunting
(Related: Wine)
"The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Army, Effect, Law, Military, Past, states, United)
"Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Congress, Legislation, Trade, Will, Wishes)
"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen."
- Warren E. Burger
(Related: Free speech, Freedom)
"Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America."
- Warren E. Burger
(Related: Time, America, Challenge, Feet, Justice)
"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."
- Anthony Burgess
(Related: Peace, War, Americans, Care, Leisure, Living, Retirement, Will)
"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead."
- Gelett Burgess
(Related: May, Opinion, Years)
"With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: Change, Absence, Genetics, Years)
"When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: First)
"The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: Care, Fact, Value)
"Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: Experience, Family, Home, Friend, Americans, Care, Past, Years)
"On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: Time, Care, Disease, First, Treatment, Will)
"In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: Business, Americans, Care, Income, Property, Taxes, Wonder)
"An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married."
- Billie Burke
(Related: Work, Career, Emotions, Merriment, Public, Tears, Tribute)
"There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career."
- Billie Burke
(Related: Marriage, Career, Reason)
"I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband."
- Billie Burke
(Related: Art, HusbCare)
"I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet."
- Brooke Burke
(Related: Love, Bed, Care, Feet, Man, Rest, Want, Wonder)
"I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different."
- Delta Burke
(Related: Clothes, Hair)
"I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs."
- Delta Burke
(Related: Dogs, Golf)
"And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other."
- Delta Burke
(Related: Time, Care)
"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: War, People, Will)
"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Men, Beer, Countries, Opium, Pressure, Wine)
"That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds."
- James Lee Burke
(Related: Age, Care, Temper, Want)
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Change, Life)
"You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Experience, Protection)
"My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Mother, Hollywood, Stars)
"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Education, Order)
"My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Movies)
"My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Diet)
"Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Welfare)
"We don't stop going to school when we graduate."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: School)
"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Growing up, Want)
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Dream)
"It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Help, Kindness, Strangers)
"I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?"
- Carol Burnett
"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Life, Words)
"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Adolescence, Walking)
"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Mother, Girls, Growing up)
"Because nobody goes through life without a scar."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Life)
"But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Life, People, Famous, Living)
"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Food, Dream)
"Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Time, Celebrity, Will)
"Comedy is tragedy plus time."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Time, Comedy, Tragedy)
"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Giving)
"I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Fish)
"I liked myself better when I wasn't me."
- Carol Burnett
"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Winning, Lawyers, Losing)
"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation."
- Conrad Burns
(Related: Work, Care, Classroom, Compassion, Duty, Future, Montana, Sense, Teachers)
"At my age flowers scare me."
- George Burns
(Related: Age, Flowers)
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
- George Burns
(Related: Family, Happiness, Caring)
"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."
- John Burns
(Related: Cleanliness, Mind, Temperance)
"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Music, Work, People, Complexity, Drama, Photography, Right, Style)
"And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something."
- Steve Burns
(Related: Car, Celebrity)
"Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror."
- Richard Burr
(Related: Action, Congress, Help, Mission, Terror, Will)
"Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase."
- Richard Burr
(Related: Will)
"The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Dreams, Care, Killing, Magic, Man, Nation, Spirits)
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Love, Care, Nothing)
"They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Newspapers, Running)
"It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Thought, Years)
"We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks."
- Cliff Burton
(Related: Care, Want)
"This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip."
- Richard Burton
"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Gold, Man)
"The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Inspirational)
"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Music, Interest, Learning)
"I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Science, Time, Day, Fiction, Film)
"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Music)
"I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Comedy, Horror, Romantic)
"I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Health, People, End, May, Sleep)
"I think being a little nuts is helpful."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Being)
"If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Day)
"John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Life, Movies)
"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Film, First)
"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Talk)
"Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Work, People, Film)
"Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Music, Film)
"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: May)
"Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Music)
"The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Change, Environment, Inspiring)
"There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: People, Being, Irony)
"I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Life)
"A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Life, Quality, Pleasure, Will)
"On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Being, Cinema, Fact)
"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Music, Mystery)
"In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Hair, Romantic)
"All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Music)
"When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Help, Hurt, Tragedy)
"Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: People, End)
"Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Life, Living, Worth)
"Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors."
- Carter Burwell
"Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Connection, Film, Media)
"Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Death, Society, Help)
"Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Death, Humor, Life, Film, Sense, Taste)
"Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Film, Sound, Voice)
"I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Fact, Old, World)
"I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Want)
"I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Projects)
"I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Music, Film, Listening, Wrong)
"I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Work, Balance, Being, Light)
"I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: People)
"I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Music)
"I just love the sheer mess of New York."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Love)
"I like business and personal life to be distinct."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Business, Life)
"Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Hope, Career)
"If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Fun, Ignorance)
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
- Leo Buscaglia
(Related: Life, Power, Act, Caring, Compliment, Listening, Potential, Smile, Word)
"The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Canada, Care, Now)
"I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Martin)
"It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on."
- Barbara Bush
(Related: Car, Life)
"The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Power, Trust, Freedom, World, Years)
"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Gain, Man, Moon, Ships, Universe, Will)
"The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war."
- George W. Bush
(Related: War, Country, Terror, Yesterday)
"After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Legal, Chaos, Enemies)
"But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives."
- Jeb Bush
(Related: Government, Money, Society, Caring, Responsibility, Weight)
"Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own."
- Laura Bush
(Related: Work, People, Career, Country, First, Lady, Want)
"That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight."
- Lauren Bush
(Related: Job, Now, Risk, Sense)