Babelgum Site Quotes & Sayings

The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard. — Randy Owen

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness. — Paul Haggis

Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Let the good times roll!) — Rachel Harris

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? — Chuck Palahniuk

In many cases science has confirmed what culture has long known — Michael Pollan

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera. — Steven Spielberg

The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil. — Larry Osborne

To me party platforms are contracts with the people. — Harry S. Truman

Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it. — Matthew Crow

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples. — William Morris Hunt

The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors. — Jack D. Zipes

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man. — Andre Malraux

In a one-party system there is always a landslide. — Philip K. Dick

Anyone mindful of one overwhelming tenet, if time travel is possible, will be possible, has ever been possible it is with us now must concur that this is the only time in history that such a banking cartel has risked its wealth on one sole adventure. Strengthening this incredible consideration was the discovery of an implant in Napoleon's skull. — James C. Horak

How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana? — Benjamin Alire Saenz