B.C. Chase Quotes

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

I am a clown, just without the painted smile.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.

Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.

A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Art is a subset of creativity.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.

I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

The key to security is public information.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

How much do I owe you?

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

I'm definitely not the most graceful person out there. I've always been taught to play hard. I don't know how not to play hard. But for some guys it just looks easier. For me, it's not that natural.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

All men are born equally free.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

Portfolios are everything, promises are nothing. Do the work.

What makes a home home? Animals, and a little bit of clutter.

Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.

Everyone can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.