Bea Arthur Maude Quotes & Sayings

Remember a few years ago when they left Bea Arthur out of the death reel at the Oscars? Bea Arthur! How did they leave Bea Arthur out? She was in Mame; she was in All in the Family; she was in Maude; she was a Golden Girl, for God's sake! Bea was not only one of Hollywood's leading ladies, she was one of Hollywood's leading men! — Joan Rivers

For me as a person who's in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of our contributions and the price that was paid to contribute to that, that we just have not gotten that together. I will do all that I can to get in front of our kids, to try to teach them, but at a certain point the people have to want it and come towards it. — Wynton Marsalis

A lie among the stars
Is a comfortable lie. — Jose Rizal

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed. — Immanuel Kant

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith. — Pico Iyer

I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity. — Richard Armitage

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude. — Bea Arthur

The mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. Like a rider on the back of an elephant, the conscious reasoning part of the mind has only limited control of what the elephant does. — Jonathan Haidt

The novel is a medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case. — Ford Madox Ford

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union. — Merrill Markoe

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way. — John Zorn

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. — Jean De La Bruyere

I'm comfortable in the way I play and comfortable in who I am. — Andrew Flintoff

Now, I think he might be dead. — Paula Hawkins

Meaning, however, is no great matter. — Charles Stuart Calverley

I do what I always do when the day has shown me its worst: I make do. — Amy A. Bartol