Clarence Budington Kelland Quotes

#1. I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you're bent over about the color, don't leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.

Janet Evanovich

#2. I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

Geraldine Ferraro

#3. Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#4. Talents used are talents multiplied.

Ellen G. White

#5. I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

#6. I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place.

Ann M. Dibb

#7. All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Mignon McLaughlin

#8. The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

Clarence Budington Kelland

#9. No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.

Suzanne V. Marshall

#10. I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape different resonances and shifts in tone.

Anna Journey

#11. Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Joseph Bayly

#12. My father didn't tell me how to live;
he lived, and let me watch him do it

Clarence Budington Kelland

#13. Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm ... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.

Blythe Danner