Billy Bathgate Quotes

..it is a fact that money exhilarates people, it puts them in hysterias of good cheer, they suddenly care about you and want the best for you. ~ E. L. Doctrow

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with. ~ Bruce Willis

Mr. Schultz did impulsive and unwise things, and I worried that I was one of them. ~ E. L. Doctrow

Without Ruth's partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team. ~ Billy Graham

I've been a poser for f
ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh. ~ Billy Connolly

True love is an act of the will - a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves. ~ Billy Graham

I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached it from a physical standpoint, but I've also been honing my compositional eye through film. ~ Billy Zane

This love for everyday things,
part natural from the wide eye of Infancy,
part a literary calculation ~ Billy Collins

Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't direct movies because I get offered the new vampire movie or science fiction movie. I don't get offered those, anyway, but if I did, I would just tell 'em, "Look, I'm the wrong guy." I only do things about people and situations, and I do the ones that I think I'm the best guy for the job on, which is usually something I generate myself. ~ Billy Bob Thornton

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating. ~ Billy Corgan

Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. ~ Billy Joel

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work. ~ Billy Childish

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812. ~ Steve Vernon

I still believe in my country. ~ Billy Corgan

We can never live this [Christian] life on the highest plane unless we are continually growing and moving forward. You should be closer to God today in heart, soul, and body than at any other time so far in your life. ~ Billy Graham

Once when he [Demonax, a supposed Cynic sage] came upon two uncouth philosophers inquiring and wrangling with one another
one of them putting absurd questions, the other answering perfectly irrelevantly
he said Don't you think, my friends, that one of these guys is milking a he-goat and the other putting a sieve underneath it? ~ Lucian Of Samosata

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion. ~ Billy Graham

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody. ~ Billy Bob Thornton

Long live your laundry! ~ Billy Mays

When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar right next to my left ear? That's where the pitcher hit me the very first time I came to bat as a pro. I was out cold for about 10 minutes. ~ Billy Herman

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell. ~ Billy Sunday

The Bible's picture of a godly leader also describes the godly home: "A shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock" (Isaiah 32:2). May that be true of your home. ~ Billy Graham

I wouldn't be caught dead in red. ~ Billy Porter

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic. ~ Billy Sherwood

I'm one of the school of people who don't do research of the reality of the thing or the unreality of the thing. In all the movies I've done, I've never done any research. ~ Billy Connolly

McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed
There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head
There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands
You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands

When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne
And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone
Frank Ryan brought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid
And you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the Devil's in the chair

And in the Euston tavern you screamed it was your shout
But they wouldn't give you service so you kicked the windows out
They took you out into the street and kicked you in the brains
So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the Devil's in the chair

You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl
There was lousy drunken bastards singing Billy in the Bowl
They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch
So you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church

Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and Paks and Jocks
And they'll take you from this dump you're in and ~ Shane MacGowan

I can't help it, and I'm not sorry for it; I'm even a little proud. People think I'm cold and unfeeling, but that's a price I've always been willing to pay. The truth is that I'm beyond help; most people are; and it only angers me to see my sisters or my friends here in town wasting their time. To forestall or cover my anger, I jump in front of them, and suddenly I myself have turned into the person come to provide comfort, reassurance, help, whatever it is they originally desired to provide me with. I take their occasion and make it my own. ~ Russell Banks

Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived. ~ Billy The Kid

Scripture makes it clear that our first love is always to be for our Lord. ~ Billy Graham

Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It's not the destination, but the trip that they dread. ~ Billy Graham

Don't work out, work in. ~ Billy Connolly

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do. ~ Billy Graham

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins. ~ Billy Graham

The troll rumbled away in the direction of the coal store and his place in front of Billy was taken by a smartly dressed young lady with an air of authority. 'Sir, I think the railway is going to need a translator. I know every language and dialect on the Disc.' Her voice was firm but there was a glint of excitement in her eyes as she looked at Iron Girder and the other engines in the compound and Billy knew she was hooked. He also knew that 'translator' was not on his list of vacancies and sent her off to Sir Harry's office, while he returned to his search for shunters, tappers and other workers. And so the line moved on again. It seemed everybody wanted to be part of the railway. ~ Terry Pratchett

[Satan] will create a religion without a Redeemer. He will build a church without a Christ. He will call for worship without the Word of God. ~ Billy Graham

Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful. ~ Billy Bob Thornton

We need to know what the Bible teaches about right and wrong. Every day we are battered by messages - from the media, advertising, entertainment, celebrities, even our friends - with one underlying theme: Live for yourself. ~ Billy Graham

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be. ~ Billy Beane

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground. ~ Billy Bragg

You're certainly blooming, Billy. Before my very eyes. I just don't know into what. ~ William Goldman

The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else. ~ Billy Graham

No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die - someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently? ~ Billy Graham

But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life. ~ Ben Fountain

Some of the happiest Christians I have met have been life-long sufferers. They have had every reason to sigh and complain, being denied so many privileges and pleasures that they see others enjoy, yet they have found greater cause for gratitude and joy than many who are prosperous, vigorous, and strong. ~ Billy Graham

I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true. ~ Billy Joel

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ? ~ Billy Graham

We all did a lot of staring that day.
The point that struck me as most interesting about our collective staring was the objects at which people stared.
Jethro stared out the window. Billy stared at the fireplace. Cletus stared at the front door. Beau stared at the kitchen table. Duane stared at the refrigerator. Roscoe stared at Momma's sewing desk.
I sat in my recliner and stared at the spot where the hospital bed had been. ~ Penny Reid

Christianity is not an insurance policy against life's ills and troubles. ~ Billy Graham

The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact. ~ Billy Graham

When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable. ~ Billy Crystal

Cut out some of your "important social engagements," and make your home the center of your social life. God will honor you, and your children will grow up to call you "blessed" [Proverbs 31:28]. ~ Billy Graham