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180000 famous quotes part 12 – 11001 to 12000
11001. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. – Luis Barragan
11002. I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. – Luis Barragan
11003. Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. – Luis Barragan
11004. Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. – Luis Barragan
11005. A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. – Luis Barragan
11006. Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human. – Luis Barragan
11007. You have to wake up a virgin each morning. – Jean-Louis Barrault
11008. My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop. – Gina Barreca
11009. Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate. – Gina Barreca
11010. The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. – Maurice Barres
11011. But this is called show business, not show family. – Alice Barrett
11012. It sustained me… I can’t tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me. – Alice Barrett
11013. When I left the show, the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me. – Alice Barrett
11014. So I’m very grateful for everything that has happened in my life. – Alice Barrett
11015. So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that’s a powerful lesson. – Alice Barrett
11016. It’s not an easy thing to be let go. – Alice Barrett
11017. I’m a just a mom when I walk down the street. – Alice Barrett
11018. I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown. – Alice Barrett
11019. Getting fired is hard. – Alice Barrett
11020. I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have. – Alice Barrett
11021. In difficult times, it’s so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for. – Alice Barrett
11022. I will always support legislation which respects and values life. – Gresham Barrett
11023. While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice. – Gresham Barrett
11024. At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart. – Gresham Barrett
11025. As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn. – Gresham Barrett
11026. Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg. – Gresham Barrett
11027. An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. – Lawrence Barrett
11028. So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that’s how we ended up with our crew. – Majel Barrett
11029. You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in. – Majel Barrett
11030. You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they’ll work just as well – any single one of them – because they’re stories about people, they’re stories about things. – Majel Barrett
11031. When we started out in ’64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship. – Majel Barrett
11032. We’re having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States. – Majel Barrett
11033. You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre. – Majel Barrett
11034. Man must be in space – that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do. – Majel Barrett
11035. I’m going to take over on the Techno Comics so I’m going to be dealing in the children’s merchandising type department. But that’s just setting it up and having somebody run it. – Majel Barrett
11036. I don’t think we’re wasting people in space. – Majel Barrett
11037. But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines. – Majel Barrett
11038. Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House. – Majel Barrett
11039. The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they’re paying for it. – Majel Barrett
11040. It’s ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs. – Rona Barrett
11041. Pick your enemies carefully or you’ll never make it in Los Angeles. – Rona Barrett
11042. The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he’s got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. – Rona Barrett
11043. The only work I’ve done the last two years is interviews. I’m very good at it. – Syd Barrett
11044. I’m disappearing, avoiding most things. – Syd Barrett
11045. I’m full of dust and guitars. – Syd Barrett
11046. I’m sorry I can’t speak very coherently. – Syd Barrett
11047. I’m treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. – Syd Barrett
11048. I’ve just had an operation, but nothing too serious. – Syd Barrett
11049. If I’d stayed at college I would have become a teacher. – Syd Barrett
11050. Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it’s so clean. – Syd Barrett
11051. I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any. – Syd Barrett
11052. When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group. – Syd Barrett
11053. It’s always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I’m a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn’t reach that point. – Syd Barrett
11054. Fairy-tales are nice. – Syd Barrett
11055. I’d like to be rich. I’d like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends. – Syd Barrett
11056. A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I’m quite happy doing what I’m doing. – Syd Barrett
11057. I wasn’t always this introverted. – Syd Barrett
11058. Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then. – Syd Barrett
11059. Have you seen the roses? There’s a whole lot of colours. – Syd Barrett
11060. I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them. – Syd Barrett
11061. I don’t really read a lot. Maybe I should. – Syd Barrett
11062. I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head. And I’m not anything that you think I am anyway. – Syd Barrett
11063. I like songs that are simple. – Syd Barrett
11064. I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time. – Syd Barrett
11065. I think it’s good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people. – Syd Barrett
11066. Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. – Tom Barrett
11067. If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain? – Tom Barrett
11068. It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes. – Tom Barrett
11069. The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment. – Tom Barrett
11070. With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn’t appear that we’re going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it’s going to continue to grow. – Tom Barrett
11071. We are all failures at least, all the best of us are. – J. M. Barrie
11072. You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. – J. M. Barrie
11073. That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. – J. M. Barrie
11074. Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It’s our only joke. Every woman knows that. – J. M. Barrie
11075. Every time a child says I don’t believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. – J. M. Barrie
11076. Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. – J. M. Barrie
11077. It’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have. – J. M. Barrie
11078. His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants’ hall. – J. M. Barrie
11079. Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. – James M. Barrie
11080. Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. – James M. Barrie
11081. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. – James M. Barrie
11082. Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? – James M. Barrie
11083. Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. – James M. Barrie
11084. Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. – James M. Barrie
11085. That is ever the way. ‘Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. – James M. Barrie
11086. The best place a person can die, is where they die for others. – James M. Barrie
11087. Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie
11088. There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. – James M. Barrie
11089. The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. – James M. Barrie
11090. To die will be an awfully big adventure. – James M. Barrie
11091. We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. – James M. Barrie
11092. We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. – James M. Barrie
11093. You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. – James M. Barrie
11094. The most useless are those who never change through the years. – James M. Barrie
11095. Everytime a child says ‘I don’t believe in fairies’ there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. – James M. Barrie
11096. Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. – James M. Barrie
11097. A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be. – James M. Barrie
11098. Always be a little kinder than necessary. – James M. Barrie
11099. Ambition – it is the last infirmity of noble minds. – James M. Barrie
11100. Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands! – James M. Barrie
11101. Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. – James M. Barrie
11102. The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. – James M. Barrie
11103. Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. – James M. Barrie
11104. A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. – James M. Barrie
11105. For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. – James M. Barrie
11106. God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. – James M. Barrie
11107. His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. – James M. Barrie
11108. I am not young enough to know everything. – James M. Barrie
11109. I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. – James M. Barrie
11110. I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg. – James M. Barrie
11111. It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else. – James M. Barrie
11112. I like to play dress up, I’m in love with fashion. – Fantasia Barrino
11113. My lips are big, but my talent is bigger. – Fantasia Barrino
11114. I’ve been wanting to sing for a long time. I’ve been singing all my life, and I’ve tried different record companies, but it seemed like – it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, ‘I’m gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.’ – Fantasia Barrino
11115. When I’m out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that’s on my mind and everything I’m going through is forgotten about. – Fantasia Barrino
11116. I always say you’ve only got one life to live, and you’re not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it. – Fantasia Barrino
11117. I’m very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I’m singing. – Fantasia Barrino
11118. I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people. – Fantasia Barrino
11119. I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me. – Chuck Barris
11120. Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business. – Chuck Barris
11121. The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that’s that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show – listen, my Uncle George isn’t known as anything. So I guess it isn’t so bad in that context. – Chuck Barris
11122. There’s tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it. – Chuck Barris
11123. It was hard to make fun of him because he seemed to have so much fun making fun of himself. – James Barron
11124. Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there. – Ana Beatriz Barros
11125. I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato. – Ana Beatriz Barros
11126. It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies. – Ana Beatriz Barros
11127. Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. – Isaac Barrow
11128. No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him. – Isaac Barrow
11129. Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men. – Isaac Barrow
11130. Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it. – Isaac Barrow
11131. That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God’s will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively. – Isaac Barrow
11132. That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. – Isaac Barrow
11133. Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. – Isaac Barrow
11134. That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other. – Isaac Barrow
11135. If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church. – Isaac Barrow
11136. It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. – Isaac Barrow
11137. I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. – Isaac Barrow
11138. He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. – Isaac Barrow
11139. Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. – Isaac Barrow
11140. Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. – Isaac Barrow
11141. Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. – Isaac Barrow
11142. If you never try, you’ll never know what you are capable of. – John Barrow
11143. You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn’t pay the bills. – John Barrow
11144. Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place. – John Barrow
11145. People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy. – John Barrow
11146. One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud. – John Barrow
11147. One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn’t everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you’ve no chance. – John Barrow
11148. It’s not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference. – John Barrow
11149. Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment. – John Barrow
11150. There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience. – John D. Barrow
11151. There was no “before” the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. – John D. Barrow
11152. The more you act like a lady, the more he’ll act like a gentleman. – Sydney Biddle Barrows
11153. I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity. – Sydney Biddle Barrows
11154. Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn’t want your mother to hear at your trial. – Sydney Biddle Barrows
11155. The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. – Dave Barry
11156. The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter. – Dave Barry
11157. The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn’t have eyeballs or fins. – Dave Barry
11158. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. – Dave Barry
11159. The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television. – Dave Barry
11160. The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. – Dave Barry
11161. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. – Dave Barry
11162. The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. – Dave Barry
11163. The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. – Dave Barry
11164. Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. – Dave Barry
11165. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. – Dave Barry
11166. Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. – Dave Barry
11167. The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. – Dave Barry
11168. Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. – Dave Barry
11169. Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. – Dave Barry
11170. Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd. – Dave Barry
11171. Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. – Dave Barry
11172. Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. – Dave Barry
11173. The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. – Dave Barry
11174. We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires. – Dave Barry
11175. The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. – Dave Barry
11176. Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. – Dave Barry
11177. Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. – Dave Barry
11178. Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. – Dave Barry
11179. Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. – Dave Barry
11180. You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. – Dave Barry
11181. What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers. – Dave Barry
11182. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. – Dave Barry
11183. We’ll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. – Dave Barry
11184. We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin. – Dave Barry
11185. To better understand why you need a personal computer, let’s take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life. – Dave Barry
11186. We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth. – Dave Barry
11187. The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. – Dave Barry
11188. To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. – Dave Barry
11189. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. – Dave Barry
11190. There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. – Dave Barry
11191. The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example. – Dave Barry
11192. The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot. – Dave Barry
11193. The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. – Dave Barry
11194. The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. – Dave Barry
11195. The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs. – Dave Barry
11196. We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. – Dave Barry
11197. Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. – Dave Barry
11198. Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print. – Dave Barry
11199. Have you noticed that whatever sport you’re trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? – Dave Barry
11200. Guys are simple… women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically. – Dave Barry
11201. Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. – Dave Barry
11202. ‘Escargot’ is French for ‘fat crawling bag of phlegm’. – Dave Barry
11203. For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball. – Dave Barry
11204. Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there’s a good chance that nobody is reading my column. – Dave Barry
11205. I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. – Dave Barry
11206. Don’t you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don’t even have to be true! – Dave Barry
11207. Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. – Dave Barry
11208. Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business. – Dave Barry
11209. Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. – Dave Barry
11210. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. – Dave Barry
11211. Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. – Dave Barry
11212. As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. – Dave Barry
11213. And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West. – Dave Barry
11214. American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it. – Dave Barry
11215. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. – Dave Barry
11216. Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything. – Dave Barry
11217. It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. – Dave Barry
11218. Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. – Dave Barry
11219. Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship. – Dave Barry
11220. My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. – Dave Barry
11221. Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. – Dave Barry
11222. Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. – Dave Barry
11223. I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. – Dave Barry
11224. It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells… to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. – Dave Barry
11225. It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person’s plate. – Dave Barry
11226. It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. – Dave Barry
11227. In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid. – Dave Barry
11228. I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. – Dave Barry
11229. If you were to open up a baby’s head – and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should – you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. – Dave Barry
11230. Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators. – Dave Barry
11231. If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. – Dave Barry
11232. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’ – Dave Barry
11233. If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry. – Dave Barry
11234. I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. – Dave Barry
11235. I want a pit crew… I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems. – Dave Barry
11236. I realize that I’m generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don’t care. – Dave Barry
11237. In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. – Dave Barry
11238. The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor’s mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know. – Gene Barry
11239. I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time. – Gene Barry
11240. There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so. – John Barry
11241. Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It’s exhilarating, but after a while it wasn’t the kind of thrill I enjoyed. – Lynda Barry
11242. Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. – Lynda Barry
11243. I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn’t married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn’t gay? I knew I was lucky. – Lynda Barry
11244. I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth. – Lynda Barry
11245. I go to work the minute I open my eyes. – Lynda Barry
11246. I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women’s restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. – Lynda Barry
11247. Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word. – Lynda Barry
11248. If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. – Lynda Barry
11249. There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn’t analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone’s work. – Lynda Barry
11250. The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. – Lynda Barry
11251. Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? – Lynda Barry
11252. Race and class are the easiest divisions. It’s very stupid. – Lynda Barry
11253. People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life. – Lynda Barry
11254. Love will make a way out of no way. – Lynda Barry
11255. Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. – Lynda Barry
11256. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. – Lynda Barry
11257. If I didn’t try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time. – Lynda Barry
11258. I’ve gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I’ve never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do? – Lynda Barry
11259. I wasn’t afraid to be laughed at or be loud. – Lynda Barry
11260. I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist. – Lynda Barry
11261. I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. – Lynda Barry
11262. I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. – Lynda Barry
11263. I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. – Lynda Barry
11264. In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. – Lynda Barry
11265. This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff. – Marion Barry
11266. What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? – Marion Barry
11267. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. – Marion Barry
11268. I have to admit I didn’t do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we’re getting it done. It’s not where you’ve been but where you’re going. – Marion Barry
11269. Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. – Marion Barry
11270. They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it’s ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there’s just so many things they do incorrectly. – Rick Barry
11271. People who don’t know me have opinions about me. That’s the part that’s very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you’ve never met them or spent any time with them? So it’s all based upon hearsay or things that they’ve read. – Rick Barry
11272. In life it wasn’t what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends. – Rick Barry
11273. You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it’s not that brutal. It’s only $6. – Todd Barry
11274. People don’t understand that that’s really what it is. They’re looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people. – Todd Barry
11275. People in New York love having roof parties. – Todd Barry
11276. Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself. – Todd Barry
11277. There seems to be more comedy for comedy’s sake. – Todd Barry
11278. Well, I have since seen you at Tinkle. It’s a comedy show started by David Cross, me and Jon Benjamin. It features a wide variety of acts for all tastes and seasons. – Todd Barry
11279. You always think you’re better than you are in the beginning. – Todd Barry
11280. My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act. – Todd Barry
11281. Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it’s just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere. – Todd Barry
11282. I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things. – Todd Barry
11283. It’s cool to go to a place that has posters up and it’s one night only. It feels more special. – Todd Barry
11284. I’d rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place. – Todd Barry
11285. I’m particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone. – Todd Barry
11286. I’m traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy. – Todd Barry
11287. I’ve never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show. – Todd Barry
11288. If I’m at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts. – Todd Barry
11289. If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. – Todd Barry
11290. It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me. – Todd Barry
11291. There’s people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it’s garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job. – Todd Barry
11292. I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. – Todd Barry
11293. I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport. – Todd Barry
11294. I don’t feel I’m even worthy of a normal amount of value. – Todd Barry
11295. I don’t really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I’d be a contrarian pirate. – Todd Barry
11296. I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange. – Todd Barry
11297. I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this… this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it. – Todd Barry
11298. I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn’t work. – Todd Barry
11299. I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there’s not a lot of teaching involved in that. – Todd Barry
11300. I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you’ve ever written. – Todd Barry
11301. I will not be misquoted! – Todd Barry
11302. I wasn’t as nervous as I thought I would be when I started. – Todd Barry
11303. I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all. – Todd Barry
11304. I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film. – Todd Barry
11305. I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires. – Todd Barry
11306. I like pens. My writing is so amazing there’s never a need to erase. – Todd Barry
11307. I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors. – Todd Barry
11308. I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also. – Todd Barry
11309. I mean, I’ve had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I’ve never even thought about, and they’re right. – Todd Barry
11310. I mean, I’ve always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that. – Todd Barry
11311. I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage. – Todd Barry
11312. I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don’t think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage. – Todd Barry
11313. I loved Australia. I was very successful there. – Todd Barry
11314. I don’t know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians. – Todd Barry
11315. I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it. – Todd Barry
11316. I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I’m too classy to bring that up. – Todd Barry
11317. Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days. – Todd Barry
11318. Anyone who bombs is my friend. – Todd Barry
11319. And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy. – Todd Barry
11320. I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year. – Todd Barry
11321. I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend. – Todd Barry
11322. There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. – Drew Barrymore
11323. Kissing – and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing – is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down. – Drew Barrymore
11324. I’m so in control of my life, you shouldn’t dislike anything I do-because I’m not only in the best place I’ve ever been, but it keeps getting better and better. – Drew Barrymore
11325. I’ve always said that one night, I’m going to find myself in some field somewhere, I’m standing on grass, and it’s raining, and I’m with the person I love, and I know I’m at the very point I’ve been dreaming of getting to. – Drew Barrymore
11326. I’ve been a vegetarian for years and years. I’m not judgemental about others who aren’t, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures. – Drew Barrymore
11327. If you’re going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it. – Drew Barrymore
11328. If you’re going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something. – Drew Barrymore
11329. It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning. – Drew Barrymore
11330. Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful. – Drew Barrymore
11331. Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. – Drew Barrymore
11332. Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. – Drew Barrymore
11333. My whole life, I’ve wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It’s the most liberating thing in the world. – Drew Barrymore
11334. I’m not after fame and success and fortune and power. It’s mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that’s the good stuff in life. – Drew Barrymore
11335. There’s a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there’s no person I’m going to push to the side to get where I’m going. I want to create my own road. – Drew Barrymore
11336. When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most. – Drew Barrymore
11337. When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That’s when I feel beautiful. – Drew Barrymore
11338. When you’ve been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn’t have to act perfect all the time. – Drew Barrymore
11339. Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage. – Drew Barrymore
11340. God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I’m not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. – Drew Barrymore
11341. You’ve just got to do the best that you can. – Drew Barrymore
11342. Daisies are like sunshine to the ground. – Drew Barrymore
11343. I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t. – Drew Barrymore
11344. Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. – Drew Barrymore
11345. I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed. – Drew Barrymore
11346. I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day. – Drew Barrymore
11347. I definitely don’t think that I’m hot doo-doo. I don’t. – Drew Barrymore
11348. I don’t know anybody’s road who’s been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don’t know what life has in store for you. – Drew Barrymore
11349. I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important. – Drew Barrymore
11350. A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? – Drew Barrymore
11351. I don’t want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child. – Drew Barrymore
11352. I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself. – Drew Barrymore
11353. I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows. – Drew Barrymore
11354. I never want to get to the point where it’s all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else. – Drew Barrymore
11355. I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. – Drew Barrymore
11356. I never act my characters – I am them. – Drew Barrymore
11357. I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic. – Drew Barrymore
11358. I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect. – Drew Barrymore
11359. You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. – Ethel Barrymore
11360. For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. – Ethel Barrymore
11361. The best time to make friends is before you need them. – Ethel Barrymore
11362. When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn’t that the best position from which to pray? – Ethel Barrymore
11363. The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. – Ethel Barrymore
11364. The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. – Ethel Barrymore
11365. The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure – if you don’t like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don’t like it, you don’t understand and you ought to find out. – Ethel Barrymore
11366. That’s all there is; there isn’t any more. – Ethel Barrymore
11367. Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. – Ethel Barrymore
11368. Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can’t become a virtuoso in both. – Ethel Barrymore
11369. You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. – Ethel Barrymore
11370. I never let them cough. They wouldn’t dare. – Ethel Barrymore
11371. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. – John Barrymore
11372. You can’t drown yourself in drink. I’ve tried, you float. – John Barrymore
11373. Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. – John Barrymore
11374. America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks. – John Barrymore
11375. Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? – John Barrymore
11376. You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. – John Barrymore
11377. When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. – John Barrymore
11378. You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. – John Barrymore
11379. The good die young, because they see it’s no use living if you have got to be good. – John Barrymore
11380. My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments. – John Barrymore
11381. My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere. – John Barrymore
11382. In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief. – John Barrymore
11383. If it isn’t the sheriff, it’s the finance company; I’ve got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. – John Barrymore
11384. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. – John Barrymore
11385. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. – John Barrymore
11386. I’ve read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. – John Barrymore
11387. I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. – John Barrymore
11388. I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. – John Barrymore
11389. Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. – John Barrymore
11390. The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. – John Barrymore
11391. This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them. – Lionel Barrymore
11392. Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. – Lionel Barrymore
11393. Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. – Lionel Barrymore
11394. I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn’t care what he believed. – Lionel Barrymore
11395. I’ve got a lot of ham in me. – Lionel Barrymore
11396. It’s only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. – Peter Bart
11397. It really hasn’t been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity. – Peter Bart
11398. The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector. – Peter Bart
11399. Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October. – Peter Bart
11400. One of Brando’s problems is that he can’t have a conversation with anyone. – Peter Bart
11401. Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups. – Peter Bart
11402. That’s how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises. – Peter Bart
11403. The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process. – Peter Bart
11404. I wasn’t hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat. – Peter Bart
11405. The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion. – Peter Bart
11406. Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it’s the ultimate example of too much information. – Peter Bart
11407. The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we’re beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie. – Peter Bart
11408. Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there’s little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground. – Peter Bart
11409. We’re going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making. – Peter Bart
11410. The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people. – Peter Bart
11411. Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications. – Peter Bart
11412. Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas – this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in ’04. – Peter Bart
11413. A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture. – Peter Bart
11414. Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals. – Peter Bart
11415. Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value. – Peter Bart
11416. This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history. – John Barth
11417. You’re certain to get a decision in a trial. – John Barth
11418. The Bible is not man’s word about God, but God’s word about man. – John Barth
11419. Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. – John Barth
11420. Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. – John Barth
11421. If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn’t too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. – John Barth
11422. More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations. – John Barth
11423. Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. – Karl Barth
11424. Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. – Karl Barth
11425. What God chooses for us children of men is always the best. – Karl Barth
11426. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. – Karl Barth
11427. Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. – Karl Barth
11428. No one can be saved – in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved – in virtue of what God can do. – Karl Barth
11429. Man can certainly flee from God… but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate. – Karl Barth
11430. Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. – Karl Barth
11431. Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. – Karl Barth
11432. Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. – Karl Barth
11433. It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart. – Karl Barth
11434. It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. – Karl Barth
11435. In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. – Karl Barth
11436. Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. – Karl Barth
11437. Faith is never identical with piety. – Karl Barth
11438. Faith in God’s revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. – Karl Barth
11439. Jews have God’s promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. – Karl Barth
11440. Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. – Karl Barth
11441. The photographic image… is a message without a code. – Roland Barthes
11442. The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! – Roland Barthes
11443. The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. – Roland Barthes
11444. What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. – Roland Barthes
11445. Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. – Roland Barthes
11446. There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes
11447. To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. – Roland Barthes
11448. The New is not a fashion, it is a value. – Roland Barthes
11449. What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. – Roland Barthes
11450. To eat steak rare… represents both a nature and a morality. – Roland Barthes
11451. The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. – Roland Barthes
11452. A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. – Roland Barthes
11453. For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. – Roland Barthes
11454. I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. – Roland Barthes
11455. I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun. – Roland Barthes
11456. Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. – Roland Barthes
11457. Literature is the question minus the answer. – Roland Barthes
11458. Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. – Roland Barthes
11459. Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes
11460. Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes
11461. The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock. – Maria Bartiromo
11462. Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It’s important for a woman to be able to control her finances. – Maria Bartiromo
11463. News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what’s noise and news after the fact is easy. – Maria Bartiromo
11464. Oil is a very important component of economic growth. – Maria Bartiromo
11465. Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense. – Maria Bartiromo
11466. Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research. – Maria Bartiromo
11467. While it’s wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise. – Maria Bartiromo
11468. The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock. – Maria Bartiromo
11469. It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald’s, that they are… attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we’re talking right now… it seems that you’re saying they need to make more responsibility. – Maria Bartiromo
11470. The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that’s what life is all about. – Maria Bartiromo
11471. The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors. – Maria Bartiromo
11472. Business news is sexy. – Maria Bartiromo
11473. Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets. – Maria Bartiromo
11474. Too many people say to their brokers, I can’t deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That’s the worst attitude you can have. – Maria Bartiromo
11475. A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders. – Maria Bartiromo
11476. Don’t ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there’s always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you’re doing. And they’re going to work harder than you if you’re not working hard. – Maria Bartiromo
11477. Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn’t trigger a sell signal so frequently. – Maria Bartiromo
11478. I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. – Maria Bartiromo
11479. I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don’t need to follow the market so closely. – Maria Bartiromo
11480. I’m not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on. – Maria Bartiromo
11481. I’ve always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That’s what’s helped me be successful today. – Maria Bartiromo
11482. If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won’t have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth. – Maria Bartiromo
11483. As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It’s not a bad thing; it’s just a fact. – Maria Bartiromo
11484. Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible. – Bob Bartlett
11485. If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God. – Bob Bartlett
11486. Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy. – Dan Bartlett
11487. The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy. – Dan Bartlett
11488. I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution. – Roscoe Bartlett
11489. I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won’t last forever. – Roscoe Bartlett
11490. We need to have a culture that says ‘the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself’. – Roscoe Bartlett
11491. Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement. – Steve Bartlett
11492. This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear. – Steve Bartlett
11493. You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn’t know before, just talking about the Badgers. – Steve Bartlett
11494. Competitions are for horses, not artists. – Bela Bartok
11495. I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing. – Bela Bartok
11496. In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. – Bela Bartok
11497. We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. – Cecilia Bartoli
11498. So you see, movies are really another dimension. – Cecilia Bartoli
11499. The first time I sang with David Daniels… I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he’s such a great artist. – Cecilia Bartoli
11500. The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find – the goal is always to make more nuance and colors. – Cecilia Bartoli
11501. The media can be a really strong vehicle. – Cecilia Bartoli
11502. The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don’t really have a nightlife in the winter time. – Cecilia Bartoli
11503. The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French. – Cecilia Bartoli
11504. The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It’s like a good red wine Give it time. – Cecilia Bartoli
11505. When you are accompanied by the instrument – on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice – you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple. – Cecilia Bartoli
11506. I am a person of the 18th century. – Cecilia Bartoli
11507. Well, I don’t think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you… make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way. – Cecilia Bartoli
11508. Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides. – Cecilia Bartoli
11509. When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice. – Cecilia Bartoli
11510. So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift. – Cecilia Bartoli
11511. The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice. – Cecilia Bartoli
11512. I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome. – Cecilia Bartoli
11513. People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction. – Cecilia Bartoli
11514. I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It’s important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing. – Cecilia Bartoli
11515. Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red. – Cecilia Bartoli
11516. German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it’s not difficult to sing in German; it’s difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It’s a culture. – Cecilia Bartoli
11517. I did a concert… in September with the Berlin Philharmonic… They’re great musicians, and there’s always something to learn from them. – Cecilia Bartoli
11518. I think, first of all, you need to love what you’re doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you’re doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course. – Cecilia Bartoli
11519. Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It’s a big source of inspiration. With what’s going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace. – Cecilia Bartoli
11520. I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it’s also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century. – Cecilia Bartoli
11521. It’s a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it’s unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it’s really fantastic. – Cecilia Bartoli
11522. It’s like when you want to make a house… the technique is very important. – Cecilia Bartoli
11523. It’s nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color. – Cecilia Bartoli
11524. It’s such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me. – Cecilia Bartoli
11525. Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension. – Cecilia Bartoli
11526. I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He’s one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera. – Cecilia Bartoli
11527. Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot. – Bernard Barton
11528. No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. – Bernard Barton
11529. As I walk’d by myself, I talk’d to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee. – Bernard Barton
11530. Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house. – Bruce Barton
11531. When you are through changing, you are through. – Bruce Barton
11532. What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. – Bruce Barton
11533. Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. – Bruce Barton
11534. The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. – Bruce Barton
11535. Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. – Bruce Barton
11536. The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity – an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. – Bruce Barton
11537. Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that’s really the take-home message for teenage girls. – Bruce Barton
11538. No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. – Bruce Barton
11539. Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. – Bruce Barton
11540. When you have something for breakfast, you’re not going to be starving by lunch. – Bruce Barton
11541. Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. – Bruce Barton
11542. It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. – Bruce Barton
11543. It takes a real storm in the average person’s life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. – Bruce Barton
11544. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to. – Bruce Barton
11545. If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature. – Bruce Barton
11546. If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. – Bruce Barton
11547. Conceit is God’s gift to little men. – Bruce Barton
11548. Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don’t overeat. – Bruce Barton
11549. Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. – Bruce Barton
11550. When you’re through changing, you’re through. – Bruce Barton
11551. Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business. – Bruce Barton
11552. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. – Bruce Barton
11553. I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat? – Clara Barton
11554. This conflict is one thing I’ve been waiting for. I’m well and strong and young – young enough to go to the front. If I can’t be a soldier, I’ll help soldiers. – Clara Barton
11555. The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. – Clara Barton
11556. I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay. – Clara Barton
11557. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. – Clara Barton
11558. I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. – Clara Barton
11559. Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and nobody’s business is my business. – Clara Barton
11560. Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. – Clara Barton
11561. An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. – Clara Barton
11562. A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve. – Clara Barton
11563. The surest test of discipline is its absence. – Clara Barton
11564. Every chemical reaction has a transition state. – Derek Harold Richard Barton
11565. It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally. – Derek Harold Richard Barton
11566. Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. – Derek Harold Richard Barton
11567. The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry. – Derek Harold Richard Barton
11568. X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution. – Derek Harold Richard Barton
11569. I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. – Edmund Barton
11570. If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided. – Edmund Barton
11571. The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other. – Edmund Barton
11572. It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education. – Edmund Barton
11573. Creating a nation requires the will of the people! – Edmund Barton
11574. I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian. – Edmund Barton
11575. A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. – Edmund Barton
11576. Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned. – Elizabeth Barton
11577. I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself. – Elizabeth Barton
11578. I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective. – Joe Barton
11579. Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation’s founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America’s storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation. – Joe Barton
11580. The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation’s birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq’s battlefields. – Joe Barton
11581. Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem. – John Barton
11582. The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like. – John Barton
11583. Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense. – John Barton
11584. Poets can’t resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. – John Barton
11585. Reading should be a repeat performance. – John Barton
11586. Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. – John Barton
11587. Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses. – John Barton
11588. Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. – John Barton
11589. The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight. – John Barton
11590. The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. – John Barton
11591. The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken. – John Barton
11592. We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future. – John Barton
11593. You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it. – John Barton
11594. No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? – John Barton
11595. To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. – John Barton
11596. The reader’s challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions. – John Barton
11597. I feel very connected to poets across the country. – John Barton
11598. My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don’t want our lives to end. – John Barton
11599. A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. – John Barton
11600. An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. – John Barton
11601. I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me. – John Barton
11602. I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance. – John Barton
11603. I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff. – John Barton
11604. I have always been very obsessed with time. Time’s passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone. – John Barton
11605. I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have. – John Barton
11606. I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada’s most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy. – John Barton
11607. I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on. – John Barton
11608. I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. – John Barton
11609. If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. – John Barton
11610. In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change. – John Barton
11611. Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them. – John Barton
11612. Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. – John Barton
11613. Pretty people aren’t as accepted as other people. It’s like, ‘She’s pretty and thin and she’s got to have problems. She’s messed up.’ – Mischa Barton
11614. The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. – William Bartram
11615. Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels. – William Bartram
11616. It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border. – William Bartram
11617. The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. – William Bartram
11618. Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. – William Bartram
11619. On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver. – William Bartram
11620. My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. – William Bartram
11621. If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. – William Bartram
11622. Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. – William Bartram
11623. Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes. – William Bartram
11624. First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds. – William Bartram
11625. Try being my size and going into a public restroom. – Billy Barty
11626. The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered. – Billy Barty
11627. The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy. – Billy Barty
11628. We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism. – Billy Barty
11629. No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world. – Bernard Baruch
11630. If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don’t get all the facts, it can’t be right. – Bernard Baruch
11631. In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. – Bernard Baruch
11632. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. – Bernard Baruch
11633. Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. – Bernard Baruch
11634. Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. – Bernard Baruch
11635. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. – Bernard Baruch
11636. Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. – Bernard Baruch
11637. Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock. – Bernard Baruch
11638. Never follow the crowd. – Bernard Baruch
11639. Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. – Bernard Baruch
11640. Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. – Bernard Baruch
11641. A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. – Bernard Baruch
11642. Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. – Bernard Baruch
11643. Always do one thing less than you think you can do. – Bernard Baruch
11644. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. – Bernard Baruch
11645. If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. – Bernard Baruch
11646. Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars. – Bernard Baruch
11647. During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. – Bernard Baruch
11648. Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. – Bernard Baruch
11649. I made my money by selling too soon. – Bernard Baruch
11650. I never lost money by turning a profit. – Bernard Baruch
11651. A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he’s no longer a political leader. – Bernard Baruch
11652. If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace. – Bernard Baruch
11653. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. – Bernard Baruch
11654. You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache. – Bernard Baruch
11655. When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. – Bernard Baruch
11656. Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. – Bernard Baruch
11657. We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. – Bernard Baruch
11658. We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat. – Bernard Baruch
11659. We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time. – Bernard Baruch
11660. Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing. – Bernard Baruch
11661. You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government. – Bernard Baruch
11662. Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people. – Bernard Baruch
11663. There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure. – Bernard Baruch
11664. The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. – Bernard Baruch
11665. The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. – Bernard Baruch
11666. The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. – Bernard Baruch
11667. The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. – Bernard Baruch
11668. Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. – Bernard Baruch
11669. One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. – Bernard Baruch
11670. Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others. – Bernard Baruch
11671. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man’s reasoning powers. – Bernard Baruch
11672. The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life. – Grace Baruch
11673. The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships. – Grace Baruch
11674. I am not the first straight dancer or the last. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11675. I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11676. No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11677. It’s what’s left in life, to work with interesting people. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11678. It’s weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11679. I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11680. To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you’re thinking about what you’re doing in life-in my case, dancing. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11681. I want to do exactly what I want to do. I’d rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11682. Working is living to me. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11683. I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11684. I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11685. People of art should never get married and have children, because it’s a selfish experience. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11686. I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don’t hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11687. I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer’s work is. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11688. I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It’s great. If you start somebody’s career, it’s so exciting. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11689. I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I’m waiting in line like everybody else. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11690. I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11691. Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11692. Dancing is my obsession. My life. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11693. Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don’t have to know more about them than they’ve given you already. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11694. Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11695. Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11696. To walk across the street is a risk. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11697. You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It’s a Catch-22 kind of thing. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11698. I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11699. The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
11700. To put up a show is to face life’s injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. – Luigi Barzini
11701. They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman’s octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. – Luigi Barzini
11702. Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. – Luigi Barzini
11703. In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun
11704. Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. – Jacques Barzun
11705. The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. – Jacques Barzun
11706. The intellectuals’ chief cause of anguish are one another’s works. – Jacques Barzun
11707. The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers. – Jacques Barzun
11708. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. – Jacques Barzun
11709. Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. – Jacques Barzun
11710. Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. – Jacques Barzun
11711. Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. – Jacques Barzun
11712. Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti. – Jacques Barzun
11713. Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun
11714. In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. – Jacques Barzun
11715. If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. – Jacques Barzun
11716. Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. – Jacques Barzun
11717. If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. – Jacques Barzun
11718. Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. – Jacques Barzun
11719. Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. – Jacques Barzun
11720. A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth. – Jacques Barzun
11721. An artist has every right – one may even say a duty – to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. – Jacques Barzun
11722. Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form – or else it is not art. – Jacques Barzun
11723. It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. – Jacques Barzun
11724. I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. – Georg Baselitz
11725. I always feel attacked when I’m asked about my painting. – Georg Baselitz
11726. Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art. – Georg Baselitz
11727. The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial… his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does. – Georg Baselitz
11728. I don’t like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn’t important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious. – Georg Baselitz
11729. I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting’s finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns… your thought process goes on. – Georg Baselitz
11730. I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father’s generation. – Georg Baselitz
11731. I never promised you a rose garden. – Traian Basescu
11732. Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq. – Traian Basescu
11733. I assure you I will not miss the chance to show you that you were right when you voted for me. – Traian Basescu
11734. I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians. – Traian Basescu
11735. I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs. – Traian Basescu
11736. There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout. – Traian Basescu
11737. What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything? – Abu Bakar Bashir
11738. They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11739. The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11740. The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11741. The only model to follow is pure Islam. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11742. So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it! – Abu Bakar Bashir
11743. The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11744. There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11745. This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11746. Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11747. We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now? – Abu Bakar Bashir
11748. What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us? – Abu Bakar Bashir
11749. You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11750. Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves? – Abu Bakar Bashir
11751. Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that! – Abu Bakar Bashir
11752. We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11753. But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir’s proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11754. Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11755. Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11756. Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11757. But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11758. But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11759. If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11760. Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11761. Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11762. Islam’s laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11763. Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11764. Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11765. Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11766. Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11767. As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets. – Abu Bakar Bashir
11768. Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child. – Martin Bashir
11769. The children don’t wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings. – Martin Bashir
11770. The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself. – Martin Bashir
11771. The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago. – Martin Bashir
11772. The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques. – Martin Bashir
11773. This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason. – Martin Bashir
11774. You say he’s childish, but he’s very professional about business transactions. – Martin Bashir
11775. Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children. – Martin Bashir
11776. I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity. – Martin Bashir
11777. We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance. – Martin Bashir
11778. It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it. – Martin Bashir
11779. Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image. – Martin Bashir
11780. If somebody’s not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking. – Martin Bashir
11781. I have an inate curiosity about people. – Martin Bashir
11782. I don’t think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts. – Martin Bashir
11783. He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that’s why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers. – Martin Bashir
11784. It’s terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is? – Martin Bashir
11785. It was a challenging experience. I’m looking forward to a break. – Martin Bashir
11786. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. – Matsuo Basho
11787. There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. – Matsuo Basho
11788. The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. – Matsuo Basho
11789. The moon is brighter since the barn burned. – Matsuo Basho
11790. Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. – Matsuo Basho
11791. Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. – Matsuo Basho
11792. I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, ‘Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.’ – Count Basie
11793. If you play a tune and a person don’t tap their feet, don’t play the tune. – Count Basie
11794. Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! – Count Basie
11795. Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues. – Count Basie
11796. All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel… and that’s what I’ve been doing all my life. – Count Basie
11797. I’m saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet. – Count Basie
11798. I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch. – Count Basie
11799. A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – Saint Basil
11800. Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. – Saint Basil
11801. Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. – Saint Basil
11802. Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. – Saint Basil
11803. I love to be nervous before a scene. – Kim Basinger
11804. You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they’re going to write in whatever clever manner they desire. – Kim Basinger
11805. You have to be a little unreal to be in this business. – Kim Basinger
11806. There’s no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I’ll ever do. – Kim Basinger
11807. My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don’t count – my daughter sort of owns me. – Kim Basinger
11808. I’m not a real social person – I’m shy – and a lot of the business is just social. – Kim Basinger
11809. I’m a very determined person. – Kim Basinger
11810. I’m a very determined businesswoman… I’ve got lots of things to do, and I don’t have time to be classified as difficult, and I don’t have time. – Kim Basinger
11811. I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business. – Kim Basinger
11812. I feel there are two people inside me – me and my intuition. If I go against her, she’ll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely. – Kim Basinger
11813. I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road. – Kim Basinger
11814. Art is man’s distinctly human way of fighting death. – Leonard Baskin
11815. I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. – Leonard Baskin
11816. But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest. – Leonard Baskin
11817. I always felt I needed to teach to survive. – Leonard Baskin
11818. There is, however, a change going on in the world. There’s far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way. – Leonard Baskin
11819. The art schools… you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it. – Leonard Baskin
11820. Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. – Leonard Baskin
11821. Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don’t think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist. – Leonard Baskin
11822. I think if you touch ordinary people, they’re simply ordinary people, the way they’ve always been. They work hard, they don’t have really as much as they should. – Leonard Baskin
11823. I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life… nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. – Leonard Baskin
11824. It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way. – Leonard Baskin
11825. I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading. – Leonard Baskin
11826. I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don’t think most artists feel their work is meaningless. – Leonard Baskin
11827. Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. – Leonard Baskin
11828. I am not a black artist, I am an artist. – Jean-Michel Basquiat
11829. Believe it or not, I can actually draw. – Jean-Michel Basquiat
11830. I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. – Jean-Michel Basquiat
11831. I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life. – Jean-Michel Basquiat
11832. I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people. – Jean-Michel Basquiat
11833. I start a picture and I finish it. – Jean-Michel Basquiat
11834. I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life. – Jean-Michel Basquiat
11835. I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot. – Jean-Michel Basquiat
11836. Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. – Jean-Michel Basquiat
11837. I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. ‘If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected. – Charles F. Bass
11838. For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn’t due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. – Charles F. Bass
11839. The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995. – Charles Foster Bass
11840. Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime. – Charles Foster Bass
11841. Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs. – Charles Foster Bass
11842. State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21. – Charles Foster Bass
11843. The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security. – Charles Foster Bass
11844. The committee’s finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming. – Charles Foster Bass
11845. The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century. – Charles Foster Bass
11846. In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force. – Charles Foster Bass
11847. The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization. – Charles Foster Bass
11848. The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any. – Charles Foster Bass
11849. These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives. – Charles Foster Bass
11850. U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation’s most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected. – Charles Foster Bass
11851. Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterintelligence at U.S. weapons labs? – Charles Foster Bass
11852. Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs? – Charles Foster Bass
11853. What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States? – Charles Foster Bass
11854. We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country. – Charles Foster Bass
11855. The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense. – Charles Foster Bass
11856. Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs. – Charles Foster Bass
11857. The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them. – Charles Foster Bass
11858. The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs. – Charles Foster Bass
11859. Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted. – Charles Foster Bass
11860. As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report. – Charles Foster Bass
11861. According to the committee’s findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002. – Charles Foster Bass
11862. As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved. – Charles Foster Bass
11863. China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies. – Charles Foster Bass
11864. But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason. – Charles Foster Bass
11865. He’s a couple sandwiches short of a picnic. – Lance Bass
11866. I can’t bear looking in the mirror – I guess that’s why my hair looks like this. – Lance Bass
11867. The beginning of the shows are different. One time we’ll say ‘Hello, Denver’. Another time we’ll say ‘Hello, Memphis’. It’s always different. – Lance Bass
11868. You’ve got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity. – Lance Bass
11869. I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don’t have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep. – Angela Bassett
11870. I’m thinking about directing, but I know it’s a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script. – Angela Bassett
11871. I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough. – Shirley Bassey
11872. You don’t get older, you get better. – Shirley Bassey
11873. No wedding bells for me anymore. I’ve been happily married to my profession for years. – Shirley Bassey
11874. It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women. – Shirley Bassey
11875. I’m a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same. – Shirley Bassey
11876. I hate it when people come up to me when I’m eating. – Shirley Bassey
11877. I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn’t like it a bit. – Shirley Bassey
11878. Diamonds never leave you… men do! – Shirley Bassey
11879. I’ve always been the breadwinner and men don’t like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience. – Shirley Bassey
11880. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat
11881. Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone. – Frederic Bastiat
11882. Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. – Frederic Bastiat
11883. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. – Frederic Bastiat
11884. Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. – Frederic Bastiat
11885. The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. – Frederic Bastiat
11886. They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers. – Frederic Bastiat
11887. When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. – Frederic Bastiat
11888. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what’s behind them. – Augusto Roa Bastos
11889. Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. – Augusto Roa Bastos
11890. In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. – Augusto Roa Bastos
11891. The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. – Augusto Roa Bastos
11892. Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. – Georges Bataille
11893. To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille
11894. The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. – Georges Bataille
11895. The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille
11896. Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. – Georges Bataille
11897. Naturally, love’s the most distant possibility. – Georges Bataille
11898. Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one’s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. – Georges Bataille
11899. I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. – Georges Bataille
11900. Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. – Georges Bataille
11901. Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else – an animal’s incomplete compared to a person… and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. – Georges Bataille
11902. Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. – Georges Bataille
11903. A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing. – Georges Bataille
11904. Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. – Georges Bataille
11905. The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. – Georges Bataille
11906. The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it. – Mario Batali
11907. You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook’s year. I get more excited by that than anything else. – Mario Batali
11908. When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. – Mario Batali
11909. We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day. – Mario Batali
11910. To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it’s actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami. – Mario Batali
11911. There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. – Mario Batali
11912. In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don’t have a bad deli. There’s no mediocrity accepted. – Mario Batali
11913. As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. – Mario Batali
11914. I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. – Mario Batali
11915. There’s a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. – Mario Batali
11916. I’m in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven’t had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I’ve been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay. – Jason Bateman
11917. Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong. – Jason Bateman
11918. Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn’t do it. – Jason Bateman
11919. People have often asked if I’m gay because I don’t go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude. – Jason Bateman
11920. If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it’s as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people. – Jason Bateman
11921. I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth. – Jason Bateman
11922. I just love doing sitcoms. I’d be in them till I was gray if they’d have me. – Jason Bateman
11923. I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face. – Jason Bateman
11924. I don’t have anything to fix! I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, and I don’t eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla. – Jason Bateman
11925. By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy. – Jason Bateman
11926. A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it. – Jason Bateman
11927. Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch. – Jason Bateman
11928. Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don’t quite know why it does. – Alan Bates
11929. I’ve never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I’ve always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society. – Alan Bates
11930. I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image. – Alan Bates
11931. You’ve got to have steel in you somewhere. – Alan Bates
11932. You can’t always go by the book, even in comedy. – Alan Bates
11933. I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you. – Alan Bates
11934. You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are. – Alan Bates
11935. No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There’s no such thing as knowing what the public wants. – Alan Bates
11936. I do believe in living out your own time, unless it’s absolutely impossible, which it is for some people. – Alan Bates
11937. An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor. – Alan Bates
11938. I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all. – Alan Bates
11939. People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do. – Alan Bates
11940. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. – Daisy Bates
11941. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies. – Daisy Bates
11942. Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any. – Daisy Bates
11943. In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl. – H. E. Bates
11944. It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life. – Henry Walter Bates
11945. The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. – Henry Walter Bates
11946. The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. – Henry Walter Bates
11947. The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. – Henry Walter Bates
11948. Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. – Henry Walter Bates
11949. They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other. – Henry Walter Bates
11950. Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. – Henry Walter Bates
11951. Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet. – Katharine Lee Bates
11952. It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls. – Katharine Lee Bates
11953. Alexander Payne’s very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them. – Kathy Bates
11954. I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play – a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period. – Kathy Bates
11955. I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage. – Kathy Bates
11956. I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented. – Kathy Bates
11957. It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can’t get any better than that! – Kathy Bates
11958. Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We’d met socially before but never worked together. You know, he’s very professional, very disciplined and he’s always prepared and knows his lines. – Kathy Bates
11959. The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy. – Kathy Bates
11960. Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings. – Kathy Bates
11961. The joy late coming late departs. – Lewis J. Bates
11962. The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God’s time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come. – Lewis J. Bates
11963. Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day – some sweet day. – Lewis J. Bates
11964. O, once in each man’s life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune’s gates, And conquers its desire. – Lewis J. Bates
11965. Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below. – Lewis J. Bates
11966. Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. – Marston Bates
11967. Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another. – Gregory Bateson
11968. There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. – Gregory Bateson
11969. Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. – Gregory Bateson
11970. Number is different from quantity. – Gregory Bateson
11971. Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. – Gregory Bateson
11972. Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. – Gregory Bateson
11973. Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. – Gregory Bateson
11974. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. – Gregory Bateson
11975. Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. – Gregory Bateson
11976. Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B. – Gregory Bateson
11977. To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. – Gregory Bateson
11978. Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. – Gregory Bateson
11979. Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. – Gregory Bateson
11980. Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. – Gregory Bateson
11981. It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. – Gregory Bateson
11982. It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems. – Gregory Bateson
11983. If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. – Gregory Bateson
11984. Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. – Gregory Bateson
11985. In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson
11986. It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. – Gregory Bateson
11987. It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. – Gregory Bateson
11988. But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? – Gregory Bateson
11989. All experience is subjective. – Gregory Bateson
11990. A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms. – Gregory Bateson
11991. We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. – Gregory Bateson
11992. Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. – Mary Catherine Bateson
11993. Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. – Mary Catherine Bateson
11994. Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. – Mary Catherine Bateson
11995. Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. – Mary Catherine Bateson
11996. Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food. – Mary Catherine Bateson
11997. Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. – Mary Catherine Bateson
11998. The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. – Mary Catherine Bateson
11999. The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. – Mary Catherine Bateson
12000. The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. – Mary Catherine Bateson