Top 100 Betsy's 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

Betsy's Quotes #14443
#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

Betsy's Quotes #14563
#3. [I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

Betsy Lerner

Betsy's Quotes #16239
#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

Betsy's Quotes #23213
#5. Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality!

Betsy Beers

Betsy's Quotes #24185
#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

Betsy's Quotes #25933
#7. Also,I loathe it when you refer to me as dude Eric Sinclair to Betsy

MaryJanice Davidson

Betsy's Quotes #42929
#8. your rainbow colors
come out to play when it pours -
chase the gray away

Betsy E. Snyder

Betsy's Quotes #49414
#9. Hope is like a balloon. It seems like it swells up just so someone else can pop it in your face.

Betsy Schow

Betsy's Quotes #55958
#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

Betsy's Quotes #63650
#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

Betsy's Quotes #73321
#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

Betsy's Quotes #76776
#13. Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Edward Abbey

Betsy's Quotes #93385
#14. I'm very dogged when I believe in something. I'm also dark and twisty.

Betsy Beers

Betsy's Quotes #121073
#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

Betsy's Quotes #123669
#16. What would Betsy tell Marty about poor,

Carolyn Brown

Betsy's Quotes #138463
#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

Betsy's Quotes #143541
#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

Betsy's Quotes #160282
#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

Betsy's Quotes #164089
#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

Betsy's Quotes #186037
#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

Betsy's Quotes #193235
#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

Betsy's Quotes #212017
#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

Betsy's Quotes #229860
#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

Betsy's Quotes #229965
#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

Betsy's Quotes #243825
#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

Betsy's Quotes #245555
#27. When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules

Betsy Cornwell

Betsy's Quotes #260983
#28. The seeds of violence are sown early in life.

Betsy McAlister Groves

Betsy's Quotes #267393
#29. I had no idea how one day could contain so much happiness and despair at once.

Betsy Cornwell

Betsy's Quotes #271948
#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

Betsy's Quotes #316421
#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

Betsy's Quotes #321431
#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

Betsy's Quotes #335709
#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

Betsy's Quotes #338179
#34. I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.

Betsy Beers

Betsy's Quotes #341549
#35. I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.

Betsy Lerner

Betsy's Quotes #353530
#36. There is nothing in there that doesn't deserve to get burned

Betsy Schow

Betsy's Quotes #359141
#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

Betsy's Quotes #360375
#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

Betsy's Quotes #377948
#39. The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.

Betsy Beers

Betsy's Quotes #381681
#40. On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

Betsy Beers

Betsy's Quotes #406108
#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

Betsy's Quotes #407324
#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

Betsy's Quotes #411870
#43. We take the suggestions people give us and build the best reality we can for them.

Betsy Beers

Betsy's Quotes #411957
#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

Betsy's Quotes #416681
#45. Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.

MaryJanice Davidson

Betsy's Quotes #423163
#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

Betsy's Quotes #423895
#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

Betsy's Quotes #438169
#48. That was the trouble with life - it never quite fulfilled its promises.

Betsy Byars

Betsy's Quotes #443864
#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

Betsy's Quotes #446707
#50. Lord help us all. They'll dub this one the shit war, Betsy said.

Carolyn Brown

Betsy's Quotes #477065
#51. Obamacare will question your sex life,

Betsy McCaughey

Betsy's Quotes #500477
#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

Betsy's Quotes #509577
#53. It was always the secrets that hurt us, wasn't it? Not the telling of them.

Betsy Cornwell

Betsy's Quotes #511208
#54. Eating healthy and keeping hydrated does wonders; it centers my mood and helps me keep a sharp mind.

Betsy Landin

Betsy's Quotes #517563
#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

Betsy's Quotes #520124
#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

Betsy's Quotes #523897
#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

Betsy's Quotes #523964
#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

Betsy's Quotes #530056
#59. I swear like a trucker when I'm excited.

Betsy Beers

Betsy's Quotes #530142
#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

Betsy's Quotes #546622
#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

Betsy's Quotes #547858
#62. The drama takes a toll on you.

Betsy Brandt

Betsy's Quotes #565170
#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

Betsy's Quotes #578753
#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

Betsy's Quotes #585627
#65. It's just a game," she says. Make no mistake: people who say it's just a game are out for blood.

Betsy Lerner

Betsy's Quotes #608700
#66. 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

Betsy's Quotes #618348
#67. 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

Betsy's Quotes #619429
#68. 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

Betsy's Quotes #626069
#69. 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

Betsy's Quotes #653326
#70. I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

Betsy Beers

Betsy's Quotes #657302
#71. 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

Betsy's Quotes #708676
#72. 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

Betsy's Quotes #732672
#73. We're growing up and I don't like it, said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.

Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy's Quotes #741143
#74. 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

Betsy's Quotes #761449
#75. 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

Betsy's Quotes #803281
#76. 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

Betsy's Quotes #810065
#77. Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, 'Let's remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.' So whenever it is that we're not, maybe it'll come back again. Maybe it won't. But you've gotta love the ride.

Betsy Brandt

Betsy's Quotes #871986
#78. But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

Betsy Lerner

Betsy's Quotes #875936
#79. Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art ... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not in what they feel, think, listen, and see.

Betsy Hearne

Betsy's Quotes #877154
#80. It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.

Betsy Palmer

Betsy's Quotes #882628
#81. Sometimes, I cry because I'm sad, and sometimes, I cry just because it's just emotional and it's super awesome.

Betsy Beers

Betsy's Quotes #910407
#82. Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?

Betsy Sholl

Betsy's Quotes #944564
#83. Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

Judy Blume

Betsy's Quotes #971975
#84. Children's and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that's why so many adults read YA: we're never done coming of age.

Betsy Cornwell

Betsy's Quotes #1059087
#85. I have to believe it's right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.

Betsy Cornwell

Betsy's Quotes #1175818
#86. I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.

MaryJanice Davidson

Betsy's Quotes #1431347
#87. Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."

Betsy Landin

Betsy's Quotes #1450313
#88. Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess, they all went together to find a bird's nest ...

Shirley Jackson

Betsy's Quotes #1459783
#89. Verte was the kingdom's head sorceress, oracle, palace grump, and the only reason I hadn't died of sheer boredom.... One time, I blew up her caudron trying to make soup. In retaliation, she sent me a billy goat that ate my entire closet's contents.

Betsy Schow

Betsy's Quotes #1514481
#90. 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

Betsy's Quotes #1557976
#91. I actually started, as a result of 'Scandal,' instead of wearing a bathrobe, wearing sweaters around at home in my leisure. And my poor husband was very confused! I said, 'It's what Olivia Pope does'.

Betsy Beers

Betsy's Quotes #1569592
#92. My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.

Betsy Brandt

Betsy's Quotes #1588359
#93. Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.

Betsy Beers

Betsy's Quotes #1666671
#94. After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.

Betsy Brandt

Betsy's Quotes #1719767
#95. For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.

Betsy Brandt

Betsy's Quotes #1721246
#96. 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

Betsy's Quotes #1757358
#97. New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.

Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy's Quotes #1763076
#98. I do the same with my books ... Nothing like a good argument in the margins with someone who's already said all they have to say on the subject.

Betsy Cornwell

Betsy's Quotes #1792203
#99. There's really nothing to fear but fear itself. And trolls. Fear and trolls. Oh, and I guess gigans and dragons too. And can't forget wicked witches. Yeah, I guess there really is a lot to fear.

Betsy Schow

Betsy's Quotes #1853277
#100. 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

Betsy's Quotes #1877428

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