Backstop Bar Quotes & Sayings

[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of generosity among the advocates of governmentally-required "compassion". — Glenn Reynolds

Men kept sticking their hands in the fire thinking this time it would not burn, so — Robert Jordan

Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary. — Rodney Harrison

Although she missed the singing by the children from the school opposite her apartment, she didn't teach her own pupils to sing 'We Shall Overcome' in any language, because she wasn't sure that Overcoming was anywhere on anyone's horizon. — Arundhati Roy

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is. — Ira Glass

He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust - dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight. — Gustave Flaubert

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. — Tony Buzan

Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around you were dazzled by impressions, emotions, and tended to miss the finer points. In middle age you have the equipment to see the subtleties you missed before and you savor it more slowly. — Eda LeShan

When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you. — Nicole Krauss

I as an astrophysicist, see the universe, feel the universe, smell the universe every day. Every day. And for people to say, I'm cool, I'm right here, it's all I need. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Please... Please

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Please tell this people after few more words you are going to cry..
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You sound like you are on that way... if you are on that way... go straight. — Deyth Banger

It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. — Anthony Doerr

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing — Jessica Livingston