Backbeat Brewing Quotes & Sayings

I'm bored," she said.
"Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around. — Neil Gaiman

He was so far from being able to carry out such threats that one might conclude that the author of this document was utterly mad. Indeed, the man in the cave had entered a separate reality, one that was deeply connected to the mythic chords of Muslim identity and in fact gestured to anyone whose culture was threatened by modernity and impurity and the loss of tradition. By declaring war on the United States from a cave in Afghanistan, bin Laden assumed the role of an uncorrupted, indomitable primitive standing against the awesome power of the secular, scientific, technological Goliath; he was fighting modernity itself. — Lawrence Wright

Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are. — Thomas Aquinas

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security. — Hal Sparks

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it. — Robert Breault