Beulah Quotes

#1. The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies' Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary Club.

Sinclair Lewis

#2. I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. I thought sometimes I saw beyond its wild waters a shore, sweet as the hills of Beulah

Charlotte Bronte

#3. Beulah has a husband?'
I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.

Bill Bryson

#4. [Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

Fannie Hurst

#5. In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

Stephen King

#6. Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Langston Hughes

#7. Beulah, peel me a grape

Mae West

#8. I had to say it gave me a warm feeling to picture Meredith Winslow spending twenty years or so in an ill fitting orange jumpsuit, cozying up to a great big girl named Beulah

Kate Carlisle

#9. Another was: You're a babe. Tickle my feet. XO Beulah

R.J. Palacio

#10. Not that Beulah didn't present her own set of problems. She did. Not least of which was fighting the temptation to fake some scribbles on her and let the ghost have fun.

Stacia Kane

#11. According to the local gossip," Gertie said, "Beulah was over the moon for this guy. She even mailed him a pair of her underwear." "If he was really a marine," Ida Belle said, "he could have used them as a parachute.

Jana Deleon

#12. Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

Billy Wilder

#13. If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)

Eknath Easwaran

#15. Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

Martha Beck

#16. Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

Lee Smolin

#17. Make everyday the best day of your LIFE!

Beulah Burke

#18. I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Tracey Ullman

#19. Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren