Babs Quotes & Sayings

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters. — Willard Spiegelman

I reached for Jack's hand. It was cold. But then, so was mine. — Sarah Zettel

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. — James Turrell

To be presented, Babs for Bim bushi? Of courts and with enticers. Up, girls, and at him! Alone? Alone what? I mean, our strifestirrer, does she do fleurty winkies with herself. Pussy is never alone, (...) — James Joyce

An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it. — Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

Every night when I go to bed dream... of being a racecar driver. — NASCAR

Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative. — Babs Deal

You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart. — Gloria Estefan

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record. — Sarah Brightman

Babs, for all her power, has yet to catch me at it, this thing I call chasing the smash. — Ashley Prentice Norton

Nurses nurse
and teachers teach
and tailors mend
and preachers preach
and barbers trim
and chauffeurs haul
and parents get to do it all. — Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

Things about yourself are never too terrible to say. It's only the things about the ones you love. — Babs Deal

If you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all beings and all creatures and all creation, one thing is certain: you do not know God! — Peace Pilgrim

Maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all. — Babs Deal

Men simply don't understand how women are. They think there's some other kind. — Babs Deal

Meaning I want to put words to it. I want to give it a name. I'm not okay with kissing you and holding you, being by your side for all the things a boyfriend would be there for, without it being understood in no uncertain terms that that's what I am to you. I wan us to be a couple. I want to be by your side though everything that's coming, to hold your hand when you're scared and pick you up when you're weak. I want to know that you're not going to run to some other asshole when we disagree or when I try to make sure you do what we both know is the best for you. I wan you to run to me, even if I piss you off. Because I will piss you off. Because I love you. And because you love me. And because I can't go one more day without being able to tell you that as often as it comes to mind, which is about a dozen times a minute. - Jamie Babcock — Catherine Gayle

Growing up is loving what you can afford to. — Babs Deal

Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and become a slave. — Anonymous

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are. — S.J Perelman

Why are so many of their faces disfigured, if you don't mind me asking? Is it the explosive shells they're using over there?" "I'm told it's the machine guns. Curious soldiers will often lift their heads out of the trenches, thinking they can dodge bullets in time, but there's no way they can possibly avoid the hail of machine-gun fire." She glanced over her shoulder. "We tend to also see several missing left arms because of the way they position themselves for shooting in the trenches. Their bones shatter into tiny fragments and their wristwatches become embedded in their wounds. There's no way to save the limbs. — Cat Winters

I love you because I don't know how to not love you. Becuase I can't imagine my world without you, and I don't ever want to have to face that again. Because you are sweetness and light and life, and you see me as the man I could be not as the man I am. — Catherine Gayle

She loved horses and Hank Williams and had a best friend named Babs. — Cheryl Strayed

Men are imposible, but after you've had one around nothing ever has quite the flavor without one. It's terrible, really. When they're there you want to shoot them and when they're not you want to shoot yourself. — Babs Deal

Fear totally obliterates a person, it makes people tolerate what is impossible to handle — Sunday Adelaja

The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework. — Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

What is evil neither can nor should be loved; for it is not one's duty to be a lover of evil or to become like what is bad; and we have said that like is dear to like. Must the friendship, then, be forthwith broken off? Or is this not so in all cases, but only when one's friends are incurable in their wickedness? If they are capable of being reformed one should rather come to the assistance of their character or their property, inasmuch as this is better and more characteristic of friendship. But a man who breaks off such a friendship would seem to be doing nothing strange; for it was not to a man of this sort that he was a friend; when his friend changed, therefore, and he is unable to save him, he gives him up. — Aristotle.