Barbano Realty Quotes & Sayings

Any particular animal?" "Jenny Green-Teeth. A water-dwelling monster with big teeth and claws and eyes like soup plates," said Tiffany. "What size of soup plates? Do you mean big soup plates, a whole full-portion bowl with maybe some biscuits, possibly even a bread roll, or do you mean the little cup you might get if, for example, you just ordered soup and a salad?" "The size of soup plates that are eight inches across," said Tiffany, who'd never ordered soup and a salad anywhere in her life. "I checked. — Terry Pratchett

May is a pious fraud of the almanac. — James Russell Lowell

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries. — Tim O'Brien

His parents' pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war — David Foster Wallace

Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes. - ALBERT CAMUS, THE REBEL — Clive James

Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts, Which I by lacking have supposed dead; And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts, And all those friends which I thought buried. — William Shakespeare

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning. — Patty Duke

I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did. — George S. Patton

I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony. — Zach Galifianakis

Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe... — Curtis R. Smith

I find that vegetables like butternut squash, which I feel unexcited about as a side dish, I'm thrilled to eat in a soup. — Cynthia Nixon

Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person. — William Stanley Jevons

Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you. — John Waters