Bubbie Quotes & Sayings

My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life. — Fleur East

The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics. — C.S. Lewis

I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. — Daniel Johns

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression. — Ted Rall

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young. — Gilbert Gottfried

Feed your friends, and their mouths will be too full to gossip, Bubbie used to say. Feed your enemies, and they'll become your friends. — Susan Wiggs

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in. — Herbert Benson

Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003. — William Odom

Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships — Anuradha Bhattacharyya

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed. — Charles Baudelaire

Our eyes met. We had so very many shared memories between us, Bao and I. Some were wonderous, and some were terrible. Some were both. — Jacqueline Carey

In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too. — Jean Hersey

And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point! He will launch a curse upon the world, and as only man can curse (it is his privilege, the primary distinction between him and other animals), may be by his curse alone he will attain his object--that is, convince himself that he is a man and not a piano-key! If you say that all this, too, can be calculated and tabulated--chaos and darkness and curses, so that the mere possibility of calculating it all beforehand would stop it all, and reason would reassert itself, then man would purposely go mad in order to be rid of reason and gain his point! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma. — Jack Black

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live. — Sean Hannity

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell

Connor and Rose would belong to the smartest house in the wizarding world. No question. Before the sorting hat even touched their heads, it'd scream Ravenclaw! — Krista Ritchie