Beverly Quotes

#1. Am I the kind of person I want my eternal companion to be?

Robert Beverly Hale

#2. I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Beverly Cleary

#3. Words were so puzzling. Present should mean a present just as attack should mean to stick tacks in people.

Beverly Cleary

#4. When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.

Beverly LaHaye

#5. Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.

Beverly Lewis

#6. I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

Beverly Cleary

#7. If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.

Fareed Zakaria

#8. Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's third wife Day.

Jay Leno

#9. We drove ten miles in silence, the country road canopied in electric green. I pressed my head against the glass to watch the new maple leaves curling in the breeze. Every few turns offered a tempting glimpse of Lake Champlain's choppy waters.

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

#10. When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.

Beverly K. Bachel

#11. If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

Beverly Cleary

#12. I was not the first choice for Veronica in Heathers. I auditioned and they were like, "Oh, thanks." And I went to the Beverly Center to Macy's and had them do a makeover on me. I went back because I kind of knew that they thought I wasn't pretty enough. They were trying to get Jennifer Connelly.

Winona Ryder

#13. A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.

Beverly Jenkins

#14. You have gifts to give to the world. Find your voice and prosper.

Beverly Mahone

#15. In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.

Floyd Skloot

#16. You have buttered your bread. Now you must lie on it.

Beverly Rycroft

#17. They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

Malik Bendjelloul

#19. Barely see Mike against the other wall. " "Before you went out? " Beverly

Stephen King

#20. Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.

Beverly Johnson

#21. Love doesn't work like that, one or the other. Don't you know that yet?

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

#22. This just in: Beverly Hills 90210, Cleveland Browns 3.

Colin Mochrie

#23. I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, 'What?'

Gwen Stefani

#24. There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

Beverly Sills

#25. I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.

Julie Christie

#26. Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it.

Beverly Engel

#27. People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

Beverly Cleary

#28. Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

Beverly Sills

#29. Later that night I wake up screaming. A rat is at me, biting and biting me, and I cannot move.

Beverly Lowry

#30. I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Beverly Cleary

#31. Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful: It's more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.

Beverly Engel

#32. The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

Beverly Cleary

#33. I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

Neil Patrick Harris

#34. Success is not always measured by what one becomes but often by what one overcomes.

Beverly Gandara

#35. My daughter decided to embrace and celebrate who she was. She was a size 2 at one time, but she decided she didn't want to be hungry anymore. I think that's how you turn it around. Today, more and more designers are recognizing how lucrative that market is.

Beverly Johnson

#36. My favorite Congressional incongruity: ... Red State legislators galumphing from meeting to meeting in full pancake makeup. Estee Lauder may well make more money on Capitol Hill than in Beverly Hills.

Frank Bruni

#37. A child is a part of the self, and of the loved partner; a representation of generations past; the genes of the forebears; the hope of the future; a source of love, pleasure, even narcissistic delight; a tie or a burden; and sometimes a symbol of the worst parts of the self and others.

Beverly Raphael

#38. My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.

Beverly Cleary

#39. Rocks make no compromise for sex ... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.

Beverly Johnson

#40. Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery.

Beverly Johnson

#41. Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.

Beverly Jenkins

#42. To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you're trying to accomplish.

Beverly K. Bachel

#43. Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

Beverly Cleary

#44. When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.

Beverly Sills

#45. A West Virginia 10 is a California 4. Or at least that's what legend tells us: The Legend of Dr. Feelgood. Plastic surgery has a permanent home here, which is why Nancy Pelosi loves our Botoxed beaches. Beverly Hills looks like a moving Madame Tussauds.

Ben Shapiro

#46. I still do Juvederm for my lips. I go to Dr. Ourian in Beverly Hills. He's the best, and he's super natural about it.

Kylie Jenner

#47. In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.

Beverly Daniel Tatum

#48. If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?

Beverly LaHaye

#49. Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.

Beverly Johnson

#50. Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.

Beverly Cleary

#51. End, aren't we? Beverly said. She had begun to cry. This sound was also magnified in the library's still emptiness; the building itself seemed to be weeping with her. Bill thought that if he had to listen to that sound for long,

Stephen King

#52. To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

Beverly D'Angelo

#53. There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.

Amy Heckerling

#54. Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future.

Beverly Engel

#55. I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills
Just before dawn
An' knock the little jockeys
Off the rich people's lawn
An' before they get up
I'll be gone, I'll be gone
Before they get up
I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn

Frank Zappa

#56. I named my sons Brandon and Dylan after the Beverly Hills 90210 characters. Both of them were born in my bathroom. I had Dylan in my tub, and he came out underwater.

Pamela Anderson

#57. Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

Beverly Jones

#58. I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.

Esther Williams

#59. Ramona grabbed the book. "It's mine. I told you it was mine!" Then she turned to Beezus and said triumphantly, "You said people didn't buy books at the library and now you just bought one!

Beverly Cleary

#60. It's up to you to make your dreams real.

Beverly K. Bachel

#61. One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

Beverly Cleary

#62. Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves.

Beverly Jenkins

#63. My presence in California will bring a new, inspiring culinary environment to life, and I'm delighted to share my creative techniques and evolving fresh ideas with the Beverly Hills community.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#64. All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt ... The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake

Beverly Cleary

#65. Attachment to spiritual things is ... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Beverly Sills

#66. It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

Beverly Daniel Tatum

#67. Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.

Beverly Cleary

#68. She would not have hurt the old man's feelings for anything in the world.

Beverly Cleary

#69. I have great fans that come up to me, and they just want me to sign stuff. I have a restaurant in Beverly Hills - Prego - and they come in all the time asking for me to see when I'm going to show up. That doesn't really scare me.

Antonio Sabato Jr.

#70. Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.

Beverly LaHaye

#71. Apology reminds us that each person (including ourselves) deserves to be respected and treated fairly.

Beverly Engel

#72. I was young, still so young, that I thought my lack of wholeness was somehow my fault. I had no idea everyone feels this way - that the most essential part of growing up is figuring out where your empty places are and learning how to fill them by, and for, yourself.

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

#73. He would be atleast sixteen-old enough to have a driver's licence- and he would have crinkles around his eyes that showed he had a sense of humor and he would be tall, the kind of boy all the other girls would like to date

Beverly Cleary

#74. I don't live with the 'right' people. I don't want to. I don't want to live with the rich in Beverly Hills or walk the streets of Hollywood. I want to go to K-mart and get good deals.

Dick Dale

#75. You're unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

Beverly K. Bachel

#76. For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.

Mark Ruffalo

#77. I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

Beverly Cleary

#78. I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

Beverly Pepper

#79. I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.

Beverly Cleary

#80. That is the studliest thing I have ever seen.

Darren Star

#81. Say, who is this Mr. King?" "What Mr. King?" asked Ramona, walking into his trap. "Nosmo King,

Beverly Cleary

#82. I know this is probably sort of sudden." The boy hesitated. "But I was wodnering if you would care to go to the movies with me tomorrow night.

Beverly Cleary

#83. Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life - now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?

Beverly K. Bachel

#84. I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

Beverly D'Angelo

#85. Stephen D'Evelyn, a scholar working primarily on Hildegard's Symphonia, was a teaching assistant in my 2005 course on "Hildegard and the Gospels" and a valuable discussion partner for the translations we looked at in class.

Beverly Mayne Kienzle

#86. All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Beverly Cleary

#87. They wiped his paws on a good bath towel whenever he came in with wet feet, because they had not been married long enough to have an old bath towel,

Beverly Cleary

#88. Now, I looked across the Plattsburgh train depot and swelled with indulgent love at Ev's grumpy scowl.

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

#89. With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Beverly Cleary

#90. She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

Beverly Cleary

#91. I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

Beverly Cleary

#92. Even if a life has traveled down an unproductive path, you can find your faith again; pure faith, which is loyalty to God himself. Dark seasons of trial can also become the backdrop for an even greater revelation of truth.

Beverly Crawford

#93. I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

Beverly Cleary

#94. That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even carry on a telephone conversation with any privacy

Beverly Cleary

#95. There is a plethora of topics to explore. I sometimes think I may never live long enough to explore all of the unique story lines I have either in my head or waiting in my computer file.

Beverly Lewis

#96. And the muscles of his scrawny arms Are strong as rubber bands.

Beverly Cleary

#97. The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

Beverly Daniel Tatum

#98. I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.

Beverly Cleary

#99. I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

Beverly Cleary

#100. Life isn't about tommorrow ~ Life is about today

Beverly Preston