Besser Quotes & Sayings

Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go. — Richard E. Besser

It's time, little one," he coaxes from above me.
I take a deep breath as I crawl to where he instructs me. My heart is racing and I feel like tears could be close again. But I am resolved. I am going to do this. I know my own wilful obstinacy will see me into the stocks and from there it really is up to Shaw. He positions me in front of the stocks and waits a few seconds, letting me absorb their magnitude, before speaking.
"Kneel."
Just one word but it seals my fate. I comply immediately, wordlessly, allowing my terror to turn into the first shoots of arousal. This is really happening ... — Felicity Brandon

When Scott and I started, every time we performed we wrote a whole new bit. We didn't know this wasn't the way things were done because we were just starting. But we needed the new material anyway. And it's nice, every time that Matt Besser does the show he does a whole new bit. And it's nice to offer up a place where people can be that experimental while offering some solid, proven comedy as well. — B. J. Porter

My name is Matt Besser, and I'm an Arkansas Razorback. My father is a Jew from Little Rock, Ark., my mother was a Christian from Harrison, Ark., and somehow I'm an atheist now living in L.A. I am a Razorback living in the Razorback diaspora. — Matt Besser

Universal Pictures presents the Georgie Jessel Story. Ted Bessell is Georgie Jessel. Ted Bessell leads an all-star cast of Ted Bessell, Joey Bishop, Jacqueline Bisset, Whit Bissell and Joe Besser. Besser, Bissell, Bissett, Bishop and Bessell. The New York Times says, 'Bessell is Jessel". The Jewish Press says, 'We like Bessell, but only a bissel. — Gilbert Gottfried

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves. — Laini Taylor

All those Jesus freaks ever had to do was listen to my records, and it would have been obvious. But they just wanted to use me for publicity. And I suppose I didn't care that much, 'cos every time they attacked me, I got my ugly mug on the telly and sold another hundred thousand records. I should probably have sent them a Christmas card. — Ozzy Osbourne

Looking at the individuals who suffered the most during the hurricane, you could see that those with underlying medical problems were at greater risk. — Richard E. Besser

You can't put a price tag on preparation for a pandemic. — Richard E. Besser

We as a global community are only as strong as our weakest link. — Richard E. Besser

The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency. — Richard E. Besser

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. — E. M. Forster

It is well that Indians are unable to look at their country directly, for the distress they would see would drive them mad. And it is well that they have no sense of history, for how then would they be able to continue to squat amid their ruins, and which Indian would be able to read the history of his country for the last thousand years without anger and pain? It is better to retreat into fantasy and fatalism, to trust to the stars in which the fortunes of all are written — V.S. Naipaul

America's over. Get out while you still can. — J.M. Porup

Bottled water is not better than tap water. As you can tell, I'm quite passionate about water being your beverage of choice. So let's not make it more complicated than we need to. Save your money and the environment. Even in fast-food restaurants I ask for a cup of tap water - they are happy enough to oblige. — Richard Besser

It's critically important that people trust you during a public health crisis. — Richard E. Besser

(Schoenberg himself, however, had no time for Adorno, complaining of his 'pomposity' and 'oily pathos', — Tom Service

I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk — Gregg Popovich

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck. — Elmore Leonard