B.C. Chase Quotes

Design is everything.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.

Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

You worry too much about what goes into your mouth and not enough about what comes out of it.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.

I don't really like the spotlight.

I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

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.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun--a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

It's our dreams that keep us going, that seperate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.

I always try to think before I talk.

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.

It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is.

You've got to live life to the fullest. You just enjoy every beautiful thing there is to enjoy.

I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about [the streak].

It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.