Been Quotes

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.