B.C. Chase Quotes

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.

It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

Education, the free flow of information, is key for our personal and societal growth. It all comes back to education.

Money and stuff aren't what makes us happy. It's strong connections within families and friends, communities of people that truly care about one another.

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently.

The imbalances in the climate have been brought on by the incessant push for more and more immediate wealth.

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

Years ago, after I'd answered several questions from a group of teens, one of them asked how I could stay optimistic and keep on going. I answered that instead of getting sad, I get mad.

We still have a long way to go but if we work together and we work hard, you'll see black people in positions you never thought we'd be in. I thought I would never see a black President.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

I should like to see you try.

I'm no good at being good.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

I want you," she said. "I told you so," he said.

Did you know you could kill a person with a hatpin?" she said."I did not," he said. "Do you speak from experience? Have you murdered anybody? Not that I'd dream of criticizing.

You needn't consult me about redecorating. I know no female can live two days in a house and leave anything as it was. I shall be much astonished if I can find my way about when I return.

I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

Jessica: “You great drunken jackass!” Dain: “I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.

I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

"Miss you," he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.

Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.

And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly.

You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.

Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.

There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.

I've never been motivated by money. My peers and colleagues inspire me.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?

Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.

She talks like you. It’s not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag who’s only holding Cinderella back.” "That’s my girl.

The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met.""You've met God?""Certainly. I telephone Him every night.

Life changes us, with its twists and turns, in ways we don't always see coming. It changes what we want, what we dream, lays blessings in our hands better than anything we could've imagined.

I love these pet names, " she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!

I want you, " she said."I told you so, " he said.