Ardalan Bakr Quotes & Sayings

I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M. — Michael Stipe

Call-and-response style, yes, exactly. So whenever different groups get together then there has to be this long period of negotiation. How will we worship? What's acceptable? What's not? If I want to say "Amen" can I? — Michael Emerson

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400. — Ted Williams

I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point. — Laurel Nakadate

Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king! — Robin Sloan

Didn't your mother ever tell you the only way to kill us is to cut us into pieces? You should have brought a wood chipper instead of a gun. (Wulf) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature. — Walter Mosley

If it's the last time, let me wrap my love around you. Let me lose you like I found you. — Agnetha Faltskog

I'm beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves. — Shane Kuhn

Don't let others hijack your dreams. Be captain of your own ship and master of your own destiny. — Joanne Madeline Moore

Whereas previously men were differentiated only by their culture, the community is all of sudden split into economically determined classes and, with the cheap products of the factory, a poverty without beauty invades the homes; ugly, senseless, and comfortless poverty is the most widespread of all modern achievements. — Titus Burckhardt

[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so childishly to toddle along the benches, nay, to creep in the mire, and cannot skip and dance, on such light feet and legs, over and outside of God's commandments, as they do, the strong heroes and giants ... God forbid that we should! — Martin Luther

I honestly believe in a force that's larger than our own. — Grace Gealey

I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and as soon as I got properly confident, I developed my own style. After that I never looked back. — Derek Ridgers