Top 64 Quotes About Budd
#1. Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Karen DeCrow
#2. Zola Budd: so small, so waif-like, you literally can't see her. But there she is
Alan Parry
#3. This whole thing happened because I got up last night, because my cat got hungry and I had to go find a fork, and I stumbled into that conference room and saw Will and Ling and their cop friend messing with a severed hand." Budd said, "A severed what?" and Andre said, "Your cat eats with a fork?
David Wong
#4. When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
Terence Stamp
#5. [On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)
David Halberstam
#6. She [Lady Budd] was dressed in a manner to be described as impregnable, like a long, neat, up-to-date battle-cruiser.
Anthony Powell
#7. I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.
Budd Schulberg
#8. Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
Budd Schulberg
#9. Crow's Law.
Do not believe what you want to believe, until you know what you need to know. R.V. Jones of Scientific Intelligence WWII.
Neville J. Anderson-Budd
#10. My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.
Harold Budd
#12. Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.
Zola Budd
#13. When Kit called me for the next meeting I was either not myself or too much myself.
Budd Schulberg
#14. Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.
Budd Schulberg
#15. Jesus had many lovers of the kingdom of heaven but precious few bearers of his cross. Father Barry read on: ... Interrogate
Budd Schulberg
#16. Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.
Harold Budd
#17. But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.
Harold Budd
#18. Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.
Budd Schulberg
#19. You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
Budd Schulberg
#20. Work hard, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud.
Budd Schulberg
#22. The Pastor had spent his boyhood in the old country and was not at all sure that hot water, stall showers and the like were necessary to salvation. In fact it was one of his notions that Americans were too clean. Rub all the natural protective oils off their skins, they do for a fact.
Budd Schulberg
#23. My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival.
Budd Hopkins
#24. Looking back ... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
Zola Budd
#25. Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.
Budd Hopkins
#26. He was one of those magnificent fakes who could overwhelm himself with his own sincerity.
Budd Schulberg
#27. I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.
Budd Schulberg
#28. Most of us are ready to greet our worst enemies like long-lost brothers if we think they can show us a good time, if we think they can do us any good or if we even reach the conclusion that being polite will get us just as far and help us live longer.
Budd Schulberg
#29. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuitio
Dona Budd
#30. I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.
Budd Schulberg
#31. I believed him because the truth is never hard to recognize. Nothing is ever quite so drab and repetitious and forlorn and ludicrous as truth.
Budd Schulberg
#32. I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
Zola Budd
#34. You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.
Budd Schulberg
#35. Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
Budd Schulberg
#36. Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.
Budd Schulberg
#37. I'm somebody who plays the piano ... sometimes.
Harold Budd
#39. When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell of the veld. If you're African it's different and I don't think one will ever become an American or British. It doesn't matter where you move, you will always be a South African,
Zola Budd
#40. Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.
Budd Schulberg
#41. I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
Zola Budd
#42. I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.
Zola Budd
#43. I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move,
Zola Budd
#44. When we left, the sun was taking its evening dip, slipping down into the ocean inch by inch like a fat woman afraid of the water.
Budd Schulberg
#45. They looked at each other until they weren't acquaintances any longer.
Budd Schulberg
#46. I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
Harold Budd
#47. There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.
Zola Budd
#48. Very much on the defensive, I admitted that I liked to read.
"Sure," Sammy said, "I never said I had anything against reading books ... "
"The publishers will be relieved to know that," I tried to insert, but Sammy was too quick for me and was already rounding the bend of his next sentence.
Budd Schulberg
#49. Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
Zola Budd
#50. I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
Harold Budd
#51. Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock
If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy,
maybe you can grasp it.
Dick Allen
#52. A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful. There's no way to control how it will be used, how it will be read, and that's part of the excitement of it.
Budd Hopkins
#53. As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
Budd Schulberg
#54. She hasn't run faster than herself before
Zola Budd
#55. The principal furniture in Billie's mind was a good-sized bed.
Budd Schulberg
#56. And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.
Herman Melville
#57. Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
Budd Schulberg
#58. I'd like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don't entertain, nobody's listening.
Budd Schulberg
#59. When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.
Harold Budd
#60. Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
Budd Schulberg
#61. It's queer to think how many little guys there are like that, with more ability than push, sucked in by one wave and hurled out by the next, for every Sammy Glick who slips through and over the waves like a porpoise.
Budd Schulberg
#62. I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.
Zola Budd
#63. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
Budd Schulberg
#64. In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.
Budd Schulberg
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