Posts Tagged ‘People’

February 2nd, 2012 Actress, Author Types, Authors, L No Comments »

Linda Blair

Kids shouldn’t see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn’t care.
Linda Blair

Of all the projects I’ve worked on, I’ve never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he’s a genius.
Linda Blair

I’ve lived through what seems to most – and myself – many lives.
Linda Blair

The Exorcist has been a very interesting cross to bear.
Linda Blair

To ignore one’s spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That’s a very profound outlook on it.
Linda Blair

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end – I’d had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for “The Exorcist” interview.
Linda Blair

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn’t be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.
Linda Blair

It’s difficult to understand why people don’t realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
Linda Blair

One of the reasons I don’t have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You’re still asking me questions about The Exorcist.
Linda Blair

People always joke that “dog” spells “god” backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.
Linda Blair

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That’s why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
Linda Blair

January 22nd, 2012 Actress, Author Types, Authors, J No Comments »

Jane Birkin

My mother was right: When you’ve got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
Jane Birkin

I’d rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
Jane Birkin

When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn’t bear it any more.
Jane Birkin

Any film I see at two o’clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
Jane Birkin

If I were mayor, I’d invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I’d let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
Jane Birkin

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn’t paint me anymore.
Jane Birkin

I don’t know why people keep banging on about the ’60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn’t go off with different people – I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
Jane Birkin

People always like things that seem exotic.
Jane Birkin

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.
Jane Birkin

Robert Louis Stevenson… I’m focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys’ author, but he’s not at all.
Jane Birkin

I only like boutiques.
Jane Birkin

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I’ve dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.
Jane Birkin

Keep smiling – it takes 10 years off!
Jane Birkin

January 20th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Businessman, K No Comments »

Ken Blanchard

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
Ken Blanchard

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I’ve had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
Ken Blanchard

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
Ken Blanchard

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Ken Blanchard

Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
Ken Blanchard

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
Ken Blanchard

In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people… they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Ken Blanchard

Too many leaders act as if the sheep… their people… are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
Ken Blanchard

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
Ken Blanchard

I never use notes, they interfere with me.
Ken Blanchard

January 6th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, E, Public Servant No Comments »

Ernest Bevin

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
Ernest Bevin

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Ernest Bevin

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
Ernest Bevin

 

December 27th, 2011 Actor, Author Types, Authors, C No Comments »

Corbin Bernsen

Taking employment out of the country – now that’s taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.
Corbin Bernsen

I have to say, though, it’s a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.
Corbin Bernsen

There’s nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don’t know what I would do.
Corbin Bernsen

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn’t want to do what my parents did, you know?
Corbin Bernsen

Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I’d try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.
Corbin Bernsen

If we stop exploring space, we’re going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.
Corbin Bernsen

In daytime, they’re doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.
Corbin Bernsen

They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I’m sort of an experimenter; I thought it’d be interesting to play around and see what’s there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.
Corbin Bernsen

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.
Corbin Bernsen

I’m very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I’m really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.
Corbin Bernsen

It’s a great counter to doing the soap because it’s a comedy. It’s real physical comedy.
Corbin Bernsen

December 21st, 2011 Actress, Author Types, Authors, C No Comments »

Candice Bergen

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don’t have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Candice Bergen

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
Candice Bergen

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it’s rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you’re just renting for a while.
Candice Bergen

But it was hard to leave because the show’s been so important in our lives.
Candice Bergen

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen

Glamorized… am I glamorous?
Candice Bergen

Hollywood is like Picasso’s bathroom.
Candice Bergen

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
Candice Bergen

Were women meant to do everything – work and have babies?
Candice Bergen

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in – with a vengeance.
Candice Bergen

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don’t waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen

Not that we didn’t have close relationships with our parents – I’m very close to my mom – but parents didn’t think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
Candice Bergen

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
Candice Bergen

It’s not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
Candice Bergen

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
Candice Bergen

When are you going to realize that if it doesn’t apply to me it doesn’t matter?
Candice Bergen

December 20th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Poet, W No Comments »

Wendell Berry

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Wendell Berry

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
Wendell Berry

All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
Wendell Berry

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Wendell Berry

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
Wendell Berry

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Wendell Berry

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry

December 20th, 2011 A, Author, Author Types, Authors No Comments »

A. C. Benson

Man, an animal that makes bargains.
A. C. Benson

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. Benson

All the best stories are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
A. C. Benson

One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. Benson

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. Benson

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. Benson

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. Benson

A well begun is half ended.
A. C. Benson

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
A. C. Benson

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.
A. C. Benson

December 17th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Clergyman, D No Comments »

Daniel Berrigan

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
Daniel Berrigan

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
Daniel Berrigan

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I’m not responsible for its going somewhere.
Daniel Berrigan

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it’s such a horribly American word, and it’s such a vamp and, I think it’s a death trap.
Daniel Berrigan

I don’t have to prove my life. I just have to live.
Daniel Berrigan

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they’re the least remembered people.
Daniel Berrigan

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
Daniel Berrigan

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan

I don’t know what more to say. I mean, we’re all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
Daniel Berrigan

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
Daniel Berrigan

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we’re all convicted felons.
Daniel Berrigan

You just have to do what you know is right.
Daniel Berrigan

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
Daniel Berrigan

My father had very little formal education.
Daniel Berrigan

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
Daniel Berrigan

December 17th, 2011 Athlete, Author Types, Authors, P No Comments »

Patty Berg

It’s not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.
Patty Berg

People are what this election is all about.
Patty Berg

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Patty Berg

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.
Patty Berg

It’s a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.
Patty Berg

There is nothing in this game of golf that can’t be improved upon if you practice.
Patty Berg