Badiane Quotes & Sayings

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it. — Christopher Morley

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ. — William Jennings Bryan

[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men. — Teddy Wilson

Allow yourself to let go, surrender, and breathe in the beautiful world that is waiting for you just outside of your comfort zone. — Leigh Hershkovich

I was addicted to 'The Monkees' TV programme - not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, 'God! How neat!' — Marie Helvin

The cry of "Traitor!" was not a local voice only, but a bewildered people's explanation of the inexplicable. It was the eternal cry of conspiracy, of stab in the back. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures. — George Carlin

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God's. — Val McDermid

If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light.
But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone. — Colin Bateman

We exchanged disagreeable remarks. The impression of this first quarrel was terrible. I say quarrel, but the term is inexact. It was the sudden discovery of the abyss that had been dug between us. — Leo Tolstoy

The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency. — Bob McDonnell

What a fool she must have been ever to have had anything to do with the man! — Thomas Hardy

Noam Chomsky, in particular, says flatly and often that he has very little concern for language in and of itself; never has, never will. His driving concern is with mental structure, and language is the most revealing tool he has for getting at the mind. Most linguists these days follow Chomsky's lead here. — Randy Allen Harris