Been Quotes

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.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

I've been to North Africa many times.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

I actually feel I've been unbelievably lucky in love.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

"Indian policy" has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.