Bakkersonline Quotes & Sayings

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia. — Johnny Vegas

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it. — Elena Ferrante

If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No, no, no.' — Trey Parker

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan! — T. Boone Pickens

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films. — Jacques Rivette

The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter. — Thomas Jefferson

In order to forgive, you have to remember how you were hurt in the first place. And that in order to forget, you had to accept your role in what had happened. — Jodi Picoult

She seemed to think reading was some sort of hobby, as opposed to being as necessary as breathing, sleeping, and eating. — Michelle Cooper

I went to stand-up when my rock n' roll dreams weren't coming true. I knew it wasn't going to happen when I was in a New Wave band in 1992 - at the height of grunge. Then I heard No Doubt's 'Spiderwebs' and I said, 'Well, we're done.' They did - and succeeded at - what we were trying to do. — Greg Behrendt

Academic masochism reflects a metaphysical prejudice that the truth should be a hard-won treasure, that what is read or learnt easily must therefore be flighty and inconsequential. The truth should be like a mount to be scaled, it is dangerous, obscure and demanding. Under the light of the library reading room, the academics' motto reads: the more a text makes me suffer, the truer it must be. — Alain De Botton

A watched cervix never dilates. — Amy Poehler

It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals. — Alvin Toffler

Whatever mind can concieved and believe can be achieves — Napoleon Hill