Ted Bullpitt Quotes & Sayings

I was just reviewed by Robert Gottlieb, who was my editor at The New Yorker, and he sort of wondered at the fact that I still need to exorcise my parents at my age. I think he makes a basic mistake in thinking that exorcism can ever be total. The exorcism of your parents will still be occurring on your own deathbed. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy — Fabio Novembre

All I know is that it's breaking my mother's heart for me to be in here. I can stand it; I don't know if she can. — Peter Seth

War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same. — Eugene Richards

The same glucose ration was scrupulously administered to all the flasks equally. — Richard Dawkins

[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions. — Karl Mannheim

I have to rein myself in sometimes. — Rose Byrne

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star. — Edgar Winter

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism. — Patricia Ireland

The division into hundreds of countries whose borders and interests are defined by imagined local differences and arbitrary religious dogma, both of which are utterly irrelevant and meaningless on a galactic scale, must surely be addressed if we are to confront global problems such as mutually assured destruction, asteroid threats, climate change, pandemic disease and who knows what else, and flourish beyond the twenty-first century. The very fact that the preceding sentence sounds hopelessly utopian might provide a plausible answer to the Great Silence. — Brian Cox

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. — Tom Rice

We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation that provide a valuable balance to the knee-jerk reactionary behavior of most of our newspapers and political leaders. Poets are great doubters. — Sam Hamill

The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures. — Fred Brooks

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us. — Benny Goodman