Top 100 Bartlett Quotes
#1. THE SIGNORA HAD NO business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a court-yard, and a long way apart. Oh, Lucy!
E. M. Forster
#2. Reservation should be under 'Bartlett.' Right, that's two T's. Yes. 'Bart-let-et.'
John Bartlett
#3. PRESIDENT BARTLETT: See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.
Aaron Sorkin
#4. On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' ... Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.
William Safire
#5. There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.
Justin Kaplan
#6. Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to the next edition. 'Mother was right.' Author: Mrs. Bartlett, world-renowned nag. Year: 1859. Attribution: A short play entitled Every Goddamn Weekend!
John Bartlett
#7. I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our Bartlett's.
Rod Serling
#8. Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things - and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#9. Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible.
Bob Bartlett
#11. I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.
Bartlett Sher
#12. Without my voice and spirit I am dust. This is not what I want, but what I must.
Mike Bartlett
#13. This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.
Steve Bartlett
#14. Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?
Albert Allen Bartlett
#15. Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.
Paul Doughty Bartlett
#16. A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#17. The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#18. I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
John Bartlett
#19. Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart.
Joseph R. Bartlett
#20. Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?
Albert Allen Bartlett
#21. The greatest thing about being a writer is the fact you never have to learn lines - you get to write them!
Neill Bartlett
#22. You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.
John Bartlett
#23. So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.
Bruce Bartlett
#24. The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't blame members of Congress for looking out for their parochial interests. It is the president's responsibility to look out for the national interest.
Bruce Bartlett
#25. I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?'
Bartlett Sher
#26. Our personal natal horoscope provides us with a powerful tool for understanding our own energy signature and how it [one person, or, a group] is affected by other energy forms including matter.
Robert Allen Bartlett
#27. Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#28. There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.
Bruce Bartlett
#30. When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
Bartlett Sher
#31. That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
Bartlett Sher
#32. ...I am better Thoughtful Prince than King.
Potential holds appeal since in its castle walls
One is protected from the awful shame
Of failure.
Mike Bartlett
#34. It's probably this way with a lot of professionals: At first the BlackBerry is a savior, because it makes you mobile, but then it becomes a curse, because you're at a restaurant and looking down at it under the table.
Dan Bartlett
#35. When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.
Joseph R. Bartlett
#36. Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.
Josiah Bartlett
#37. And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history.
Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together ... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.
Anne Bartlett
#38. Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#39. Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.
Josiah Bartlett
#40. Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.
Steve Bartlett
#41. I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.
Bruce Bartlett
#42. When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.
P.S. Bartlett
#44. Being offended is a choice. I believe that. You don't have - you don't hear a word and you have to be offended.
John Bartlett
#45. Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#46. You've just got to keep playing hard. You have to remember that you are not just playing for the Twins. There are other teams out there. If anybody needs a shortstop they are going to come knocking on the door. So, you just have to be ready at all times.
Jason Bartlett
#47. I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.
Roscoe Bartlett
#48. I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.
Murray Bartlett
#49. There never was found a man who had courage to acknowledge himself a coward.
Joseph R. Bartlett
#50. The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#52. Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
Bartlett Sher
#53. I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#54. It is a law of nature that a dream carried for too long inside you must, eventually, begin to rot.
Neil Bartlett
#55. You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.
Roscoe Bartlett
#57. Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.
Dan Bartlett
#58. I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#59. If all we ever offer is blanket praise without any meaning behind it, kids will always seek approval because they'll never feel satisfied. If we offer genuine encouragement for their accomplishments, they won't need our approval; they'll approve of themselves.
Kelly Bartlett
#60. People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.
Bruce Bartlett
#61. Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality.
Bartlett Sher
#62. To resist him that is set in authority is evil
John Bartlett
#64. Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#67. The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
Dan Bartlett
#68. What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.
Bartlett Sher
#69. Jesus loves me! This I know
As He loved so long ago
Taking children on His knee
Saying, Let them come to Me.
Anna Bartlett Warner
#70. There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#71. We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#72. The dark net is a world of power and freedom: of expression, of creativity, of information, of ideas. Power and freedom endow our creative and our destructive faculties. The dark net magnifies both, making it easier to explore every desire, to act on every dark impulse, to indulge every neurosis.
Jamie Bartlett
#73. She turned back to inspect a bank of greens: olive, jade, leaf, kiwi, lime, a silver-green like the back of birch leaves, a bright pistachio.
Anne Bartlett
#74. I love New York, and I love being here, but I think I'll always be Australian at heart.
Murray Bartlett
#76. This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#77. Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.
Josiah Bartlett
#78. You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.
Steve Bartlett
#79. The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
Bartlett Sher
#81. Real vampires don't get pain, we give it." Florence da Vinci, Real Vampires Live Large
Gerry Bartlett
#83. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
Albert A. Bartlett
#84. To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#85. No woman ever gets given a fur coat for good reasons; if it's not to keep her on her back, it's to get her off his.
Neil Bartlett
#86. I suppose I just don't like to think (or believe) that once a man has acquired the gift of dreaming, he should (or even can) ever lose it.
Neil Bartlett
#87. I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.
Murray Bartlett
#88. Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.
Albert Allen Bartlett
#89. I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.
Roscoe Bartlett
#90. The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.
Kelly Bartlett
#91. The anonymity of the internet is a dangerous but powerful thing - to any fool who will listen.
P.S. Bartlett
#92. If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination - through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#93. The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.
Bruce Bartlett
#94. For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#95. You are more than your thoughts, your body, or your feelings. You are a swirling vortex of limitless potential who is here to shake things up and create something new that the universe has never seen.
Richard Bartlett
#96. There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#97. Encouragement is about drawing forth a child's potential. As we raise and educate our kids on how to be good people, how to work hard, and how to do the right thing, we must find ways to draw it out of them, as opposed to "filling them up" with our words and values.
Kelly Bartlett
#100. It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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