Culp Quotes & Sayings

Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap. — Oveta Culp Hobby

I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution. — Lynne Stewart

Everybody wants all of our businesses to have no restrictions in any country, but even in Canada, in order to distribute home entertainment, you need to follow the Canadian rules, and it's just about as hard to do business there as it is in China. — Jon Feltheimer

WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN ... THIS WAS A PEOPLE'S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT. — Oveta Culp Hobby

There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is ... the influence and control of the minds of men. — Ron Dart

Behind her leg a shy little girl - Grace - smiling up. "Dad?" It was a kind hope. But his dreams spoke to none of that: when he slept he dreamt of darkness, or of people he did not recognize, or of water closing slowly, almost gratefully, over his head. — Anthony Doerr

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. — Lee De Forest

I'm just saying ... I love you. And I can't imagine stopping ... — Rainbow Rowell

A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel
with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage. — Oveta Culp Hobby

I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with. — Robert Culp

Men die when they are finished living... — Ben Jones

Beyond the harm to local wildlife, any chemicals we used in our garden might end up polluting our well, or run off the property. In a heavy rainstorm, this runoff may end up in nearby Beaver Creek, a tributary to the Brandywine Creek, which runs into the Delaware River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean. These kinds of direct connections with the outside world exist in every garden, which is why I think we should always aim, in our gardening practices, to do the least harm and the greatest good. — David L. Culp

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster. — Robert Culp

Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked. — Oveta Culp Hobby

Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to. — Jaggi Vasudev

Spry is not a look, spry is behavior. — Robert Culp

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. — Carl Barks

She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters. — Daniel Handler

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose. — David James Elliott

Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance. — Oveta Culp Hobby