Baranik Quotes & Sayings

I glimpsed Alice in Wonderland.
Her voice smelled like an orange,
though I'd never peeled an orange.
I knocked on the walls, in a circle. — Yusef Komunyakaa

He kept looking for new experiences, and though he was very successful at everything he attempted, it did not bring him happiness. Remember this, success alone does not bring happiness. Nor does failure have to bring unhappiness. — Rohinton Mistry

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time. — Paul Bowles

When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough. — Bruce Chatwin

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods. — John Kasich

If reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith ... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere. — Brent Weeks

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. — Stanislav Grof

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state. — Benjamin Whichcote

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers? — Don King

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions. — Taylor Phinney

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them. — Roz Chast

We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties. — Rivera Sun

She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago. — Connie Brockway