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. 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
#4. ...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
#6. Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
Edward Abbey
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Lord help us all. They'll dub this one the shit war, Betsy said.
Carolyn Brown
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#31. Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.
Susan Isaacs
#32. Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.
Will Carleton
#33. Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted to talk she couldn't say a word.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#34. Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
Judy Blume
#35. I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.
Joan Smalls
#36. Alma didn't want Isabel to start singing the praises of their pet, a rescue beagle, or she wouldn't shush until sundown.
"I've found the missing lady," Alma said. "Say welcome home, Betsy Sweet.
Ed Lynskey
#37. Sometimes the west showed clouds like tiny pink feathers; sometimes it showed purple mountains and green lakes; sometimes the clouds were scarlet with gold around the edges. Betsy
Maud Hart Lovelace
#38. She is ... " Death turned her head, considering. "She is like a party dress I wear when I want to impress visiting dignitaries. Like your friend Betsy, I too am a Terrible Engine. I too have occasional need of awe. But between us, I think, there is no need of finery.
Catherynne M Valente
#39. Miss Betsy is looking at me. Some jealousy sure, but every woman have that in them
Marlon James
#40. Betsy and I are going to try as hard as we can not to put the burden of that longing on each other," I said. "Instead, we will comfort each other in the longing and even love it for what it is, a promise that God will someday fulfill us.
Donald Miller
#42. I wouldn't be surprised if Ruggedo melted Tik-Tok in one of his furnaces and made copper pennies of him." "In that case, I would still keep going," remarked Tik-Tok, calmly. "Pennies do," said Betsy regretfully.
L. Frank Baum
#43. who probably didn't know any better; to Louise Simonson & Brent Eric Anderson, for "God Loves, Man Kills"; to Eleanor Wood, for reasons that need no explanation; to Betsy Mitchell, for having faith; and Steve Saffel, for keeping both book
Chris Claremont
#44. The backside of Hollywood passion is disappointment and loneliness - and more often than not, resentment and cynicism about the nature of love itself.
Betsy and I were building more of a symphony than a pop song.
Donald Miller
#45. Betsy was impulsive in every area save one. Where men were concerned, she'd never ventured anything. Let others wear their hearts on their sleeves; let others chase after masculine attention. Betsy had more interesting pursuits.
Regina Jennings
#46. Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess, they all went together to find a bird's nest ...
Shirley Jackson
#47. Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked.
We certainly do.'
I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are going to use paper plates and napkins.'
Poor Joe!'
Lucky Larry!
Maud Hart Lovelace
#48. That's the way you have to be with boys," said Betsy. "Beam about their old football when you're dying to know whether they're going to take you to a party.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#49. What it comes down to is this, Betsy: you do what you need to, and then you haul ass out of there. Every single time.
MaryJanice Davidson
#50. The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18.
Corin Tucker
#51. Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#52. Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#53. Betsy: "Do you have daddy issues, Warren?"
Warren: "Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.
Rick Remender
#54. New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#55. As she continued to read to him, a look of peace relaxed across his features. It was a peace that Betsy knew transcended loyalties to nations and demonstrated they were subjects before one king - the King of Kings.
Elaine Marie Cooper
#56. The poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy
Maud Hart Lovelace
#57. Betsy doesn't keep beautiful things to herself. I've learned from her that a pretty thing isn't worth much if you can't share it with anyone. It's just a thing. Only when you let others enjoy it, too, does it become beautiful
Susan Gloss
#58. [I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.
Betsy Lerner
#59. Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality!
Betsy Beers
#60. your rainbow colors
come out to play when it pours -
chase the gray away
Betsy E. Snyder
#61. Hope is like a balloon. It seems like it swells up just so someone else can pop it in your face.
Betsy Schow
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. I'm very dogged when I believe in something. I'm also dark and twisty.
Betsy Beers
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules
Betsy Cornwell
#75. I had no idea how one day could contain so much happiness and despair at once.
Betsy Cornwell
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Voice comes from a moment beyond the alienation of culture, it is heard before there is an "I" to listen to it.
Betsy Wing
#79. I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.
Betsy Beers
#80. I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.
Betsy Lerner
#81. There is nothing in there that doesn't deserve to get burned
Betsy Schow
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.
Betsy Beers
#85. On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.
Betsy Beers
#86. 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
#87. We take the suggestions people give us and build the best reality we can for them.
Betsy Beers
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. That was the trouble with life - it never quite fulfilled its promises.
Betsy Byars
#92. 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
#94. 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
#95. It was always the secrets that hurt us, wasn't it? Not the telling of them.
Betsy Cornwell
#96. Eating healthy and keeping hydrated does wonders; it centers my mood and helps me keep a sharp mind.
Betsy Landin
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. I swear like a trucker when I'm excited.
Betsy Beers
#100. 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
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