Top 100 Betsy Quotes
#1. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.
Sloan Wilson
#2. Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.
Valerie Sayers
#3. [I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.
Betsy Lerner
#4. This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly meant to belong to Betsy and Tacy, for it fitted them so snugly.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#5. Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality!
Betsy Beers
#6. ...American history can be told and retold, claimed and reclaimed, even by people who don't look like George Washington and Betsy Ross.
Jeremy McCarter
#8. your rainbow colors
come out to play when it pours -
chase the gray away
Betsy E. Snyder
#9. Hope is like a balloon. It seems like it swells up just so someone else can pop it in your face.
Betsy Schow
#10. I understood Truman Capote's brilliant assessment of the writer's dilemma: When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip.
Betsy Lerner
#11. The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen ...
Maud Hart Lovelace
#12. Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you what I think looks good, but you have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything.
Betsy Lerner
#13. Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
Edward Abbey
#14. I'm very dogged when I believe in something. I'm also dark and twisty.
Betsy Beers
#15. By 2009, [Richard] DeVos's son, Dick and daughter-in-law Betsy were major donors on the Koch lust and facing a $5.2 million civil fine of their own for violating Ohio's campaign-finance laws.
Jane Mayer
#17. Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were.
Betsy Z. Cohen
#18. In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
Betsy Brandt
#19. A ferocious growl drew my gaze to the back of the room, where a hairy beast wore a yellow ball gown. I tried to block out the memory of Beauty in that dress earlier this evening.
Betsy Schow
#20. I think the way I sort of approach it is, you just sort of keep your head down and focus on what you are doing and making shows that people will want to see on Thursday night.
Betsy Beers
#21. Interesting shade #23 Lush Golden Blonde highlights. Heyyyyyy ... The woman in the awful suit was me! The woman in the cheap shoes was me!
MaryJanice Davidson
#22. Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it shake with emotion. She laughed mockingly and sobbed wildly when the occasion required.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#23. One of the best wedding gfts God gave you was a full-length mirror called your spouse. Had there been a card attached, it would have said, "Here's to helping you discover what you're really like!" - Gary and Betsy Ricucci
Gary L. Thomas
#24. When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'll have a book.
Betsy Byars
#25. Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie."
Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?"
"Sure. Can I have some money?
Kristin Hannah
#26. I recalled thinking ... His freakishly tidy side could be a problem.
To say that neatness was not my strong suit would be a crime against, well, the truth.
Betsy Cook Speer
#27. When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules
Betsy Cornwell
#29. I had no idea how one day could contain so much happiness and despair at once.
Betsy Cornwell
#30. And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#31. You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#32. Voice comes from a moment beyond the alienation of culture, it is heard before there is an "I" to listen to it.
Betsy Wing
#33. Betsy Dobson was the last to walk in. Andrew hadn't saved a ticket for her, so Neil assumed Wymack and Abby had invited her. Andrew didn't seem at all surprised to see her but went to her as soon as she was settled.
Nora Sakavic
#34. I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.
Betsy Beers
#35. I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.
Betsy Lerner
#36. There is nothing in there that doesn't deserve to get burned
Betsy Schow
#37. Software engineering has this in common with having children: the labor before the birth is painful and difficult, but the labor after the birth is where you actually spend most of your effort. Yet
Betsy Beyer
#38. Waiting exposes our idols and throws a wrench into our coping mechanisms. It brings us to the end of what we can control and forces us to cry out to God. God doesn't waste our waiting. He uses it to conform us to the image of his Son.
Betsy Childs Howard
#39. The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.
Betsy Beers
#40. On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.
Betsy Beers
#41. But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.
Betsy Lerner
#42. A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.
Anthony LaPaglia
#43. We take the suggestions people give us and build the best reality we can for them.
Betsy Beers
#44. Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#46. It's the colors that will make you stray. They sing to you, the not-blue and the searing light, and no matter how tightly you tie yourself to the inbetween, eventually you will break free.
No one swims only in the shallow water.
Betsy Cornwell
#47. I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.
Betsy Lerner
#48. That was the trouble with life - it never quite fulfilled its promises.
Betsy Byars
#49. It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.
Betsy Brandt
#50. Lord help us all. They'll dub this one the shit war, Betsy said.
Carolyn Brown
#52. Once you love someone, part of you is bound forever. Perhaps you never see him again - perhaps your life is better without him, and it's right to be apart. But once you've loved him, the link is formed. You can ignore it, if you choose, but you cannot sever it.
Betsy Cornwell
#53. It was always the secrets that hurt us, wasn't it? Not the telling of them.
Betsy Cornwell
#54. Eating healthy and keeping hydrated does wonders; it centers my mood and helps me keep a sharp mind.
Betsy Landin
#55. As much as I was encouraged by the number of female-centric shows being bandied about, it feels like we're being treated like a trend or a quota to be filled.
Betsy Beers
#56. I would really like that, Betsy, to cheer and jeer and hoot and root alongside a band of brothers. I would love that. But do you have any idea how much attention you have to pay to a Red Sox game? Even a regular-season Red Sox game?
Joshua Ferris
#57. He snarled at me. "This isn't over yet, Betsy."
"Excellent," I said. "I would also have accepted 'You haven't seen the last of me' and 'You'll regret this'.
MaryJanice Davidson
#58. I feel 'Breaking Bad' - maybe everybody says this about their show - I feel like this show is so special that I don't 'know' that I necessarily really know what it's like to do a regular show.
Betsy Brandt
#59. I swear like a trucker when I'm excited.
Betsy Beers
#60. Shakespeare had it wrong. Hell might know no fury like a woman scorned, but it really didn't know any fury like a woman manipulated.
Betsy St. Amant
#61. It was as if her life was a huge kaleidoscope, and the kaleidoscope had been turned and now everything was changed. The same stones shaken, no longer made the same design.
Betsy Byars
#63. True love cannot be denied," Layla said. "You know that yourself, Betsy, given your sad
experiences. Life is fleeting and one should gather rosebuds - or is it rainbows? At any rate, one
should get on the stick before it's too late.
Eloisa James
#64. Though all the major fairy tale families were coming tonight, I wouldn't exactly call any of them friends. Aside from the once-a-year gathering, I never spoke to any of them, except the occasional chat on Flitter with Cinderella, since we shared a love of designer footwear.
Betsy Schow
#65. Good women are no fun ... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.
Mae West
#66. Such a sky. The widest she'd ever seen. Even more than the long bow of the shoreline and the eternal spread of the sea, it was the sky Betsy could not fold into her understanding, the cliffs and hillocks of the land overturned, sculpted into the stony clouds and softened with the promise of light.
Alison Atlee
#67. Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.
Betsy Byars
#68. Shared, the pain was double, but only half so crippling. She couldn't bring herself to wish for the strenght to stand alone.
Betsy Cornwell
#69. It's just a game," she says. Make no mistake: people who say it's just a game are out for blood.
Betsy Lerner
#70. Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that this was the only time I would write about these characters. I felt it gave me an added incentive to do my best by them, to tell readers everything I knew, to hold nothing back.
Betsy Byars
#71. Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it's that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.
Betsy Lerner
#72. As actors, we have to be able to keep ourselves open to feel, and that's a life lesson I think many people don't get a chance to learn. In my personal life, I've learned to carry this lesson with me.
Betsy Landin
#73. Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.
Marietta Holley
#74. Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.
Betsy Lerner
#75. That's the thing about love: the best kind isn't easy of instant, and you often get roughed up a bit on the way.
Betsy Schow
#76. No way. I would rather lick a toad. I would let a wicked old hag bake me into gingerbread before I married this son of a bas-ilisk who had the gall to look amused while I hyperventilated.
Betsy Schow
#77. I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.
Betsy Beers
#78. while we are apart,
stars wink a message to you -
I (twinkle) love you
Betsy E. Snyder
#79. Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#80. I really believe you get what you're supposed to get.
Betsy Brandt
#81. The Poets say you can live on love alone, but if that were true their books would be free.
Betsy Talbot
#82. Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.
Betsy Cornwell
#83. Happiness isn't about smiling all the time, loving all the time, or getting everything you want. It's about living and experiencing everything this life has to offer you, truly and authentically.
Betsy Chasse
#84. Coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.
Betsy Sholl
#85. If I had the flag that Betsy Ross worked so hard on, I wouldn't destroy it. I'd put it up on EBay because it's gotta be worth some serious coin. And that is the American way.
Paul Provenza
#86. We're growing up and I don't like it, said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#87. For me, being alove it is being close to nature, either by the beach or near the ocean. When I look around and see how small I am in comparison to all that surrounds me, it fuels me.
Betsy Landin
#88. When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.
Kathryn Lasky
#89. I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.
Kiki Smith
#90. I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.
Betsy King
#91. I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin.
Betsy Lerner
#92. Betsy: "You bring nothing but trouble!"
Fantomex: "Forgive me if this has inconvenienced your plans for afternoon tea, Miss Braddock. Cyborgs killed my mother and stole from me.
Rick Remender
#93. I slipped one of the shoes off, looked at the inside. Property of Antonia O'Neill Taylor. I knew it. My stepmother! The bitch meant to bury me wearing her cast off shoes!
MaryJanice Davidson
#94. I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking of a chick with a white shag rug taking over his space.
Betsy Beers
#95. What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life ... and promise.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#96. Do you think that, by nature, human beings are forgiving?" "I think that, by nature, human beings are self-protective," said Hanratty. "If it is in their interest to be forgiving, then they are. If not, then they are vengeful. I am fairly certain that being forgiving is not an innate virtue.
Betsy Carter
#97. It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, Henry O. Teltscher had written a letter to Betsy Talbot Blackwell, warning her that one of her guest editors was on the brink of a nervous breakdown.
Elizabeth Winder
#98. Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#99. My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.
Betsy Byars
#100. Betsy waved her hands in the air as if to disperse an unpleasant perfume. He's such a lot of bother. You're better off - theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
Catherynne M Valente
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