Sutton Quotes & Sayings

My mama steps out of her dress
and drops it, an inheritance falling to my feet.
She stands alone: bathed, blooming,
burdened with nothing of this world.
Her body is naked and beautiful,
her wings gray and scorched,
her brown eyes piercing the brown of mine.
I watch her departure, her flapping wings:
She doesn't look back, not even once,
not even to whisper my name — Brenda Sutton Rose

Money. Love. There's not a problem that isn't caused by one or the other. And there's not a problem that can't be solved by one or the other. — J.R. Moehringer

For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish. — Brian Sutton-Smith

If you get killed, I swear I'll bring you back from the dead just to kill you again myself! — Kelsey Sutton

It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast. — Brian Sutton-Smith

Humans are cruel. — Kelsey Sutton

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture. — Sharon Horgan

Also, Willie, I dig telling the truth. Words can be twisted but a photo never lies.
Sutton laughs.
What's funny? Photographer says.
Nothing. Except - that's pure horseshit kid. I can't think of anything that lies more than a photo. In fact every photo is a dirty stinking lie because it's a frozen moment - and time can't be frozen. Some of the biggest lies I've ever run across have been photos. Some of them were of me. — J.R. Moehringer

Carrying the need to bow down and seek solace at the altar of nature, he had launched the canoe in the darkness. Tonight, his altar was the Alapaha River. — Brenda Sutton Rose

Ask me about my childhood, and I will tell you to walk to the edge of the woods with a choir of crickets chirping from every direction, a hot, humid breeze brushing through your hair, your feet, bare and callused. Stand there, unmoving, and watch the dance of ten thousand fireflies blinking on and off in the darkness. Inhale the scent of cured tobacco, freshly plowed southern soil, burning leaves, and honeysuckle. Swallow the taste of blackberries, picked straight from the bushes, and lick your teeth, the after-taste still sweet in your mouth. Now, stretch out on the ground and relax all your muscles. Watch nature's festival of flickering lights. — Brenda Sutton Rose

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile. — Brian Sutton-Smith

Jupiter will try to practise temperance but can — Komilla Sutton

Assholes tend to stick together, and once stuck are not easily separated. — Robert I. Sutton

You can't rob a bank on charm and personality, — Willie Sutton

I just wanted to go to ... some quiet place. To forget. To be someone else. — Kelsey Sutton

I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite sure what the magic recipe is, other than he just knows how to entertain an audience, and he knows when to be gooey and sweet, and when to be provocative and naughty. — Sutton Foster

Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON, even to drams, scruples and grains-nay, to the very fraction of a grain!-I wish there were infallible experiments to ascertain the quantum of brains each man possesses, and every man's integrity and candour:-This is a desideratum in science which is most of all wanted. — Robert Sutton Harrington

Social movement in this country has come when people get together,' said Carol Sutton of Norwalk, Conn., the president of a teachers union. It begins in the streets.' Climate marches — Anonymous

Are you aware that Jesus Christ can spell? I get so tired of you spelling every slang and cuss word that crosses your mind, as though you are pulling one over on the Lord. — Brenda Sutton Rose

Your friendship is better than chocolate! Well, anyway, it's right up there. — Julie Sutton

The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. The truth had slain him and tended to his wounds. The truth had hated him and loved him. The truth had opened his eyes to his own faults. — Brenda Sutton Rose

When a man's running, he seldom looks back. — Brenda Sutton Rose

The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes? — Robert I. Sutton

Real estate offers huge financial advantages to those who will learn the system. — Garrett Sutton

Bess and I had a talk. January 1919. Everything flowed from that talk, that moment. Everything. Look back on your life and see if you can pinpoint the moment when everything changed. If you can't? That means you haven't had your momemt yet, and you better hold on to your ass, it's coming. — J.R. Moehringer

They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that's the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don't be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be. — Sutton Foster

I only tweet about food and silly things, but it's really fascinating because I get a lot of response on Twitter, and I'm always looking at the type of people who write me on there, and it is such a variety. — Sutton Foster

Ray, I've run my last run of moonshine, I'm not gonna do it anymore, I'm just getting too old to be doing this stuff. — Popcorn Sutton

We're all crazy, Ms. Sutton. Some of us are simply crazier than others. — Lily White

I use job interviews for two things. First, to recruit people. Second, to get some help with my work. I give job candidates problems I can't — Robert I. Sutton

Today, it is the scent of honeysuckle that takes me back in time and lays me down near a barn. I pick a honeysuckle blossom, touch the trumpet to my nose and inhale. With sticky filthy fingers, I pinch the base of its delicate well then lick the drop of nectar. The sweet liquid makes me thirst for more, and I reach for another and another, the same hands that reach again and again for tobacco as I string. I separate honeysuckle blossoms and taste. — Brenda Sutton Rose

I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I don't really know what my life is right now. It's not what I thought it'd be at 37, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. — Sutton Foster

Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South. — Janisse Ray

Where there should be remorse, regret, longing, grief, there is, of course, only me. The black hole, the white canvas, the empty room. — Kelsey Sutton

If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same - humility. — Antony C. Sutton

People have asked if I would go back to my 20s, and I'm like, "Only if I could hold onto the wisdom and the things that I've learned." But in reality, I don't think I'd want to even go back then. I'm so happy with where I'm at. My life is very content. Everything feels really good. I wouldn't want to change any of that. I'm happy for all the ups and the downs, and everything that has led me to where I am. I wouldn't want to lose any of that. — Sutton Foster

So what's the endgame? The upward cycle of curve upon curve can't continue forever. Bodies age, congregations decline, and nations rise and fall. Certainly, we cannot launch curve after curve in perpetuity. But we can use this model to transfer momentum to the next generation. This is not about the ongoing existence of one particular church but the future health of Jesus' church and the forward momentum of the gospel from one era to the next. — Sutton Turner

I hide, I protect, I pretend. — Kelsey Sutton

Do not serve time, let time serve you. — Willie Sutton

Empty words from an empty person. — Kelsey Sutton

Be wary when people tell you that they don't produce a lot, but when they do, it will be "brilliant." Remember that innovation is largely a function of productivity. — Robert I. Sutton

You were supposed to love me. You convinced me it was safe to love you back. Liz Sutton to Ethan Hendrix — Susan Mallery

I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense. — Sarah Sutton

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre. — Sarah Sutton

With red clay between my toes,
and the sun setting over my head,
the ghost of my mother blows in,
riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord,
riding on a honeysuckle breeze. — Brenda Sutton Rose

By about the year 2000 Communist China will be a "superpower" built by American technology and skill. — Antony C. Sutton

I am excited about this. We've got half of our goal. I'd love to see us get a little bit more than half our goal and not be so deeply into this thing going into Sunday, but I feel good about everything. — Hal Sutton

Time is a thief, but he's not subtle. He's a thug. And youth is a little old lady walking through the park with a pocketbook full of cash. You want to avoid being like youth? You want to keep time from robbing you? Hold on for dear life, boys. When time tries to snatch something from you, just grab tighter. Don't let go. That's what memory is. Not letting go. — J.R. Moehringer

Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game. — Robert I. Sutton

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression. — Brian Sutton-Smith

A part of him died slowly, and the other part died overnight — Brenda Sutton Rose

When someone is pretending to be something, or hiding who they are or what they believe, they're really more ... protecting themselves. — Kelsey Sutton

When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines. — Sarah Sutton

You're going to look your girl straight in the eye and say, Baby your mom rode to the rafters. Your mom lifted three girls in her hand, grinning all the way, she says, our voices rising to a baying now, all together. Your mom build pyramids and flew high in the sky, and back in Sutton Grove, they're still talking about the wonders they saw that night, still talking about how they watched us all reach to the heavens. — Megan Abbott

Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the team. — Sarah Sutton

As he farmed, hard labor left his hands callused, the sun bleached his hair, his face leathered, and his heart throbbed with music. — Brenda Sutton Rose

Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life. — Brian Sutton-Smith

He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can't talk to. It's an awareness; it's a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder's going to take over and tell him what to do. And he's done it well. — Don Sutton

A song rises up from the belly of my past
and rocks me in the bosom of buried memories. — Brenda Sutton Rose

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition. — Sarah Sutton

Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too. — Hal Sutton

(Don) Sutton
lost thirteen games in a row without winning a ballgame. — Ralph Kiner

I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives. — Brian Sutton-Smith

I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either. — Sutton Foster

There's no point, I want to shout back. Let me go.
But that's what love is; holding on and holding tight no matter what. Through death, through pain, through everything. There's a part of me that wants to turn back and be worthy of it.
I'm standing on the edge of that bridge, though, and I'm tilting forward. Falling. There is no turning back. — Kelsey Sutton

All the desks in this room are bolted down, Sutton. Just so you know." Uh, okay. — Sara Shepard

I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid. — Sutton Foster

I don't think I would have stayed for the second season if I hadn't been happy. — Sarah Sutton

They'd done plenty of wild things in their time together, but Reeve's favorite and Sutton's too was when he asked her to beg for it. She always did, and he always made sure she was rewarded. — Lauren Blakely

Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit. — Michelle Sutton

We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down? — Sarah Sutton

My friends are right:
there is beauty
in desolation. — Kelsey Sutton

Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited. — Brian Sutton-Smith

If you can't bring yourself to encourage employees to lie down on the job, at least give them plenty of breaks. The ordinary fatigue most of us feel during the workday makes us grouchier - and dumber - as the hours go by. — Robert I. Sutton

I gaze up at the moon, thinking of how similar we are. One side always hidden while the other shines so bright. — Kelsey Sutton

Organizations that learn from their failures forgive and remember, they don't forgive and forget. — Robert I. Sutton

As I string, a swift rhythm is played out with my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many of the poor workers, the meter and rhythm of stringing tobacco is the only poetry they've ever known. — Brenda Sutton Rose

And by the way, my dear,' he said, 'you might just mention to Mrs. Sutton that if she must read the morning paper before I come down, I should be obliged if she would fold it neatly afterwards.'
'What an old fuss-box you are, darling,' said his wife.
Mr. Mummery sighed. He could not explain that it was somehow important that the morning paper should come to him fresh and prim, like a virgin.
Women did not feel these things. ("Suspicion") — Dorothy L. Sayers

In fact, our bodies are never the same--each minute, they undergo changes, even if imperceptible. Eisenstein (2001, 40-41) points out that we have many bodies, which influence our accounts of reality: 'Writing from the body, my body, my different bodies, I have different stories to tell. They are all all of a piece although they are also fragmentary as through each body experience has its own narration (13). — Barbara Sutton

If he could do one thing, he could run. He had spent his life running, secrets spitting at his back. — Brenda Sutton Rose

Statistics or graphs,'" are not optimal to understand the 'experience of suffering.'" (qtd in Sutton 11) — Paul Farmer

Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along ... or you're next. — Sara Shepard

all great technologies are blends of other technologies. — Robert I. Sutton

I enjoyed working with Peter, I was very pleased when I heard he was going to be the Doctor. — Sarah Sutton

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views. — John Cheever

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't. — Bob Sutton

On a dog sled team, unless you're the lead dog the view never changes. — Dominique Sutton

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma. — Sarah Sutton

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer. — Hal Sutton

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well. — Sutton Foster

Go where the money is ... and go there often. — Willie Sutton

No wonder being a real Christian isn't popular. Who wants to suffer so they can find joy?" ~ Dianne Simmons — Michelle Sutton

I keep staring, and I wonder why we push people away. There are a thousands reasons, really, but I think the biggest one - the most important one - is if we don't, they get close. And then they can see. — Kelsey Sutton

Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it. — Don Sutton

Well, I was such a huge fan of Amy Sherman-Palladino and of 'Gilmore Girls.' — Sutton Foster

I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality. — Brian Sutton-Smith

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone. — Sarah Sutton

Then she stretches her legs
toward the ceiling,
aiming for the sky
My sister doesn't know
that I've already been there — Kelsey Sutton

In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people. — Sarah Sutton

Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there. — Hal Sutton