Belmont Quotes

#1. I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing and bombs dropping and bodies blowing up and war sucking.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#2. For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

Jason Calacanis

#3. If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

Glen Hansard

#4. I've been in one Derby, and this is my third Belmont. But I've never thought of the fact that I haven't won a Triple Crown race. I'm not like that. I always look at the sunshine of things.

Julie Krone

#5. I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to "surround yourself with people who are better than you," and I was now living that mantra.

Kimberly Novosel

#6. Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

Lauren Bacall

#7. Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!

Francine Rivers

#8. I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#9. Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#10. We must wave our banners even higher and belt out our voices even stronger and be unified as people. We're going to make it through this!

Michael Jackson

#11. Pray to God. She will help you.

Alva Belmont

#12. There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#13. An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#14. A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#15. I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.

John Leguizamo

#16. It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

Ahmed Chalabi

#17. Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#18. A true hunter is never far from his prey.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#20. At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

Anjelica Huston

#21. I don't like raw tomatoes. And I thought I'd skip the onions so I could make out with the sexiest man alive after lunch without subjecting him to my death breath.

Olivia Cunning

#22. A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#23. If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

Rose Kennedy

#25. What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#26. You've got to look out for number one. If you're really worried about not being spoiled, just pound on through that book guys. Just read the shit out of it.

Veronica Belmont

#27. I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Bruce Springsteen

#28. When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#29. This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy.

Ishmael Beah