Top 100 Regina's Quotes
#1. In time, I found out that in God's economy nothing is ever wasted. All those "dead-end jobs" prepared me for the job of my dreams in journalism.
Regina Brett
#2. I begged her to write a song and she said yes. I am a huge Regina Spektor fan. I think she's a genius and just a lovely soul, and I wanted her voice on it. And she agreed, which is just the coolest thing, ever. She knocked it out of the park.
Jenji Kohan
#3. It's incredibly hard out there for women of color.
Regina King
#4. I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.
Regina King
#5. I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.
Regina Spektor
#6. You're drinking in the joy of life,' Bear told her when she tried to explain why she was laughing. 'There's so much opportunity for drinking deeply of it, and we very rarely do it. When you do, it makes you feel alive all over.
Regina Doman
#7. I've got no bone to pick with science, but first off I'm a man of faith. If you're using science to put limits on what God can accomplish with a person, that's where we part ways.
Regina Jennings
#8. I used to think only people like Mother Teresa and Gandhi had a mission in life. We all have one. How do you find it? You listen to your life.
All those dead-end jobs? There's no such thing. In God's economy, nothing is ever wasted. The dots all connect in time.
Regina Brett
#9. That's probably what had drawn me to Regina, the way she made me feel like I didn't have to lie.
Barack Obama
#10. God sure hadn't done His menfolk any favors when He's made women such a puzzlement.
Regina Jennings
#11. It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.
Regina King
#12. You can only aspire to what you see. That's why role modeling is important
Regina Agyare
#13. It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.
Regina King
#15. We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.
Regina Brett
#16. The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.
Regina Brett
#17. Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water
Regina Spektor
#18. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
Regina Brett
#19. I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician.
Brendon Urie
#20. When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.
Regina Brett
#21. Evil things often look beautiful.
But that's because they've stolen the beauty from the good ... Evil isn't beautiful on its own.
Regina Doman
#22. It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.
Regina Spektor
#23. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
Regina Brett
#24. When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.
Regina Brett
#25. Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.
Regina Brett
#26. There are billions of men in the world, probably millions near my age. Maybe hundreds who are compatible with me. Maybe at least a dozen who would want to date me. There's got to be at least five on the continent whom I could probably marry. So why am I so hung up on this one guy?
Regina Doman
#27. There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.
Regina Brett
#28. I have my own tastes and I have my my own ... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.
Regina Spektor
#29. I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.
Regina Spektor
#30. Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.
Regina E. Dugan
#31. You never know who you'll meet. The world is about connections, Regina. Not just who you know, but who they know. It's all one big web, everything interconnected, everyone tugging on each other's strings.
Jennifer McMahon
#32. It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.
Regina Brett
#33. It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?
Regina Brett
#34. I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.
Regina King
#35. No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.
Regina Spektor
#36. Life isn't about how you survived the storm ... it's about how you danced in the rain. Dance with me.
Regina Brett
#37. Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts
your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.
Regina Brett
#38. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and then another. That's what it takes to raise a child, to get a degree, to write a book, to do whatever it is your heart desires.
Regina Brett
#39. I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights ... It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.
Regina Spektor
#40. While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.
Regina Brett
#41. My mother died of ovarian cancer; I support organizations that raise awareness of this silent killer. Women's shelters - Jenesse Center in L.A. and the Primo Center in Chicago. Kovler Diabetes Center in Chicago.
Regina Taylor
#42. I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.
Regina King
#43. Songs kind of live in a timeless place for me, and since I make records I dunno, about every two-and-a-half to three years or something like that, it's just not enough to put all the songs that I have, no matter how much I put.
Regina Spektor
#44. Regina Spektor is great. I can't wait to see what more she's capable of.
Ronnie Wood
#45. Ish #21 Stop saying the only meat you eat is chicken. It's still meat!
Regina Griffin
#46. I always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about myself. There was never a question of me not writing.
Regina Doman
#47. It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.
Regina Spektor
#48. You never know when God's going to replace what you thought was gone forever. What a gift - a precious gift from God.
Regina Jennings
#49. I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.
Regina Spektor
#50. Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.
Regina Spektor
#51. I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.
Regina Spektor
#52. I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.
Regina Spektor
#53. We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.
Regina King
#54. I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.
Regina King
#55. When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.
Regina Spektor
#56. I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's also in the mindfulness of every part of my life, from a meal that I prepare for family and friends to putting my imagination to work in a garden.
Regina Taylor
#57. It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.
Regina Brett
#58. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
Regina Brett
#59. Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.
Regina Brett
#60. Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.
Regina Hall
#61. This is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood.
Regina Spektor
#62. I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.
Regina Spektor
#63. For what is God's will, but that we should be reconciled to ourselves.
Regina Ullmann
#65. My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.
Regina King
#66. So we speak of a Black God, Mother God, Worker God.
This de-mystifies what's been passed on to us! In our process of organization and liberation of our people, it's important to meet a God who is more like us. (Silvia Regina de Lima Silva, p. 105)
Mev Puleo
#67. The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.
Regina Brett
#68. Ish #303 It's a street food vendor! Stop asking for the health score rating.
Regina Griffin
#69. And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.
Regina Spektor
#70. Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.
Regina Brett
#71. My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.
Regina Brett
#72. For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.
Regina Brett
#73. Trust is like a fencing foil; it's not effective unless you extend it.
Regina Scott
#75. I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.
Regina Spektor
#76. May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have lost. Let's give them one more round of applause.
Regina Spektor
#77. Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.
Regina Spektor
#78. I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.
Regina King
#80. There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.
Regina King
#81. Sweetheart, there's not enough money in the world to make messing with you worth it - not unless I was plumb crazy about you. From
Regina Jennings
#82. It doesn't matter what has happened to you, it matters what you do with what has happened to you. Life is like a poker game. You don't get to choose the cards you are dealt, but it's entirely up to you how to play the hand.
Regina Brett
#83. And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive.
Regina King
#84. Yes, my buggy is outside and my horse has been acting up. I wondered if you could come rub its skull and tell me if it's got a bad case of stubborn, or if it might be indigestion?
Regina Jennings
#85. Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a Billie Holiday song? I'd say, No, it's my song. The lyrics would be in my style, but the songs would be very jazzy.
Regina Spektor
#86. Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.
Regina Brett
#87. Kevin said, "All your clothes are black." Karla's brows drew together. "Not exactly." She pointed out different items. "Onyx, charcoal, thunderhead. Shall I go on?
Regina Duke
#88. I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw your body against the door to keep the demons from advancing and stay put until they go away.
Regina Brett
#89. As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.
Regina Brett
#90. I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.
Regina Spektor
#91. There's something strange about you-" she started to say.
Oh, well, thanks!" he chuckled, his brown eyes twinkling at her.
Regina Doman
#92. Ish #1 It's not your mama's macaroni and cheese if you used spaghetti noodles.
Regina Griffin
#93. I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.
Regina Spektor
#94. My skin's too white." she said.
Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.
Regina Doman
#95. Men. You can't live with them, you can't ... no. That's about it.
Regina King
#96. If your woman is asleep every time you get home, she's just really tired. Of you.
Regina King
#97. I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.
Regina King
#98. It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.
Regina Brett
#99. In his mind, that's what made a man a man, that he protected those he cared about. Those he loved.
Regina Scott
#100. The sun rise,
The moon sets,
The wind blows,
The birds cry,
I finally saw,
The world,
As it's own,
While the sun sets,
and the moon rise,
Regina
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