Babette's Quotes

#1. I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Babette March

#2. Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

Babette Deutsch

#3. (My sole fond memory from this period is of a rubbery little Appalachian number by the name of June. Acrobatic tongue. Tooth decay. Illiterate in everything but love.)

Tim O'Brien

#4. Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

Babette Deutsch

#5. The worst government is the most moral.

H.L. Mencken

#6. The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

Babette Deutsch

#7. We shall tell you all in good time. We are men and are able to bear,

Bram Stoker

#8. Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

Bob Uecker

#9. I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.

Barry Humphries

#10. I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Babette March

#11. Such language," Babette says. "Why don't you just take a dump in my ears!

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. History
Coming too close
Is monstrous, like a doll
That is alive and bigger than the child
Who tries to hold it.

Babette Deutsch

#13. Christ, what an asshole! Babette said.

Herman Koch

#14. Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die")

Cornell Woolrich

#15. Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

Quentin Crisp

#16. This is the whole point of Babette.

Don DeLillo

#17. I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

Orlando Bloom

#18. The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

Babette Deutsch

#19. I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

Babette March

#20. Kay was only half skinny-dipping, but she fervently wished she'd worn something a bit more substantial than a baseball cap and the bottom half of the quintessential teeny-weenie yellow polka-dot bikini.

Babette James

#21. How to sustain the miracle
Of being, that like a muted bell,
Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
Quivers, intense and still?

Babette Deutsch

#22. Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?"
Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor.We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.

Karen Blixen

#23. I will always cherish the times at JGR. The only thing that I regret is that we didn't win more races and/or championships.

Bobby Labonte

#24. I love 'Babette's Feast' because of the message in it - an artist will never be poor, and you can melt the coldest heart with love and passion.

Colin Salmon

#25. The worst thing was that her school-friends began to copy her. They thought it was dead cool to be a little monster like Lucretia Crum!

Babette Cole

#26. This is the point of Babette.

Don DeLillo

#27. There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

Babette Deutsch

#28. What shall we do at our tea party?" Daddy asked. "Do we sing and read poems like you do at Grammy's?"

"We can just talk. I can tell you about what's been happening at school. You can tell me about your work or what you did when you were a little boy. You know. Things that matter.

Babette Donaldson

#29. Why did you tell me about Babette?! (Gabrielle)
Leash her until I have coffee or I may have to kill her. (Rae)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#30. At breakfast, Babette read all our horoscopes aloud, using her storytelling voice. I tried not to listen when she got to mine, although I think I wanted to listen, I think I sought some clues.

Don DeLillo

#31. Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

Babette Deutsch

#32. Trouble was, everyone always made talking out a problem sound like it was so simple and solved everything, but actually doing it, and securing the desired outcome without screwing up, seemed about as easy as rowing upriver with a teaspoon.

Babette James