Bakalar Quotes & Sayings

Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money. — Elsa Bakalar

One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable. — Elsa Bakalar

Old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections. — Virginia Woolf

If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk. — Darrell Hammond

It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.'
'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater. — Jane Austen

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th. — Scott Adams

The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves. — James Van Praagh

Kind words dispel clouds of fear like the moonlight's smile on water. — Khaled Talib

This is the day that everything can change for you. — Michael Hyatt

If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know? — V.S. Naipaul

As for his height, I would put it at no more than five feet nine inches - he being fully erect, out of his monkey crouch - and yet he brazenly put down five feet eleven on all forms and applications ... He wore glasses, the lenses thick and greasy, which distorted the things of the world into unnatural shapes. I myself have never needed glasses. I can read roadsigns a halfmile away and I can see individual stars and planets to the seventh magnitude with no optical aids whatever. I can see Uranus. — Charles Portis

With plants, persuasion is better than force. — Elsa Bakalar

Of course, there will always be, you know, conservative classical people who will judge you, but you know, who cares about them? — Luka Sulic

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons" ... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse. — Ricky Gervais

I am a professional liar. I am two people. I take pleasure in experimenting with people's emotions, people who trust me, putting their understanding of me in doubt. Basically, I am the best thing that could have happened to you. — A.M. Bakalar

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party ... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other. — Gary Vaynerchuk

The very word 'Anfield' means more to me than I can describe. — Bill Shankly

Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts for a great and loving action, it will melt and mount upwards. There are souls which, in their limitation, blame the whole world. But subdue such a soul with mercy, show it love, and it will curse its past, for there are many good impulses in it. Such a heart will expand and see that God is merciful and that men are good and just. He will be horror-stricken; he will be crushed by remorse and the vast obligation laid upon him henceforth. And he will not say then, 'I am quits,' but will say, 'I am guilty in the sight of all men and am more unworthy than all.' With tears of penitence and poignant, tender anguish, he will exclaim: 'Others are better than I, they wanted to save me, not to ruin me! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Never plant without a bucket of compost at your side. — Elsa Bakalar