Badiner Quotes & Sayings

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative. — John Zorn

At times women find it difficult to hear what men have to say when what they tell us does not conform to our fantasies of who they are or who we want them to be. — Bell Hooks

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about. — Todd McFarlane

But death is not easily escaped from by anyone: all of us with souls, earth-dwellers and children of men, must make our way to a destination already ordained where the body, after the banqueting, sleeps on its deathbed. — Seamus Heaney

Writing is like a camera. You see the world from a different lens. — Robert Ahaness

You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll be like sunshine to me. — Richelle Mead

"Hence," goes on the professor, "definitions of happiness are interesting." I suppose the best thing to do with that is to let is pass. Me, I never saw a definition of happiness that could detain me after train-time, but that may be a matter of lack of opportunity, of inattention, or of congenital rough luck. If definitions of happiness can keep Professor Phelps on his toes, that is little short of dandy. We might just as well get on along to the next statement, which goes like this: "One of the best" (we are still on definitions of happiness) "was given in my Senior year at college by Professor Timothy Dwight: 'The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.'" Promptly one starts recalling such Happiness Boys as Nietzche, Socrates, de Maupassant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Blake, and Poe."
-Review of the book, Happiness, by (Professor) William Lyon Phelps. Review title: The Professor Goes in for Sweetness and Light; November 5, 1927 — Dorothy Parker

To change with change is the changeless state — Bruce Lee

One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricity by not trying to demonstrate it. — Joe Haldeman

What can we learn from nature? Just be patient. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to do all that you could not do unloved ... — Inigo Lopez De Mendoza, 1st Marquis Of Santillana

Love your work and rejoice in all your accomplishments. — Lailah Gifty Akita