Betty Comden Quotes

#1. There is something about the creative process ... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened ... it's a sort of happy accident.

Betty Comden

#2. Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.

Amy Dickinson

#3. An eternity of chocolate fountains and perfect love and guys who always call when they say they will and banana sundaes that actually help you burn calories.

Lauren Oliver

#4. At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

Betty Comden

#5. The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

Annie Lennox

#6. Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Betty Comden

#7. There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

Roger Bacon

#8. We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

Jon Stewart

#9. I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

Paul McCartney

#10. My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.

Joe Torre

#11. We never thought we were. That's the important part.

Betty Comden

#12. Broadway's not what it used to be.

Betty Comden

#13. I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

David Ogden Stiers

#14. Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for an actor to have good dialogue.

Julia Garner

#15. 'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

J.K. Rowling

#16. The song 'Some Other Time ... ' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

Betty Comden

#17. New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

Betty Comden

#18. We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

Arto Lindsay

#19. From those of us who are left behind: you will be remembered, you were the one I needed, I loved you in my dreams.

Bret Easton Ellis

#20. Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Yogi Berra

#21. God, how did I get to this place where my friends sell themselves to keep me alive?

Kim Harrison

#22. Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.

Antonio Gala