Barbra Jean Booker Hart Quotes & Sayings

An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character ... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory. — Timothy Foote

Too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow. — Amy Tan

The only real, true, permanent way to destroy your mind control is to work through the memories. It's unfortunate because it's unpleasant. It hurts to work through your memories; they have pain. Memories are not just made up of ideas, and thoughts and storylines, they are also made up of physical pain and emotional pain and sadness and distress and despair and all of those things are part of memories. — Alison Miller

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity. — Tim Ferriss

Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me. — Dolly Parton

I've never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient. — Hugh Hefner

When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked. — Jim Denevan

I'm sorry. You went too far.'
Lovely. What an epitaph. — Joanne Harris

They're sort of ancillary, friends. I mean, they're important - everybody knows that; the TV tells you so - but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another. — Ned Vizzini

But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about being completely present all the time, right there in the moment. — Renee O'Connor

The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life. — James P. Hogan

Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us. — Pete Rose

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him. — Helmut Schoeck

[I]f you happen to have any money, lock it up quickly; if you happen to have any jewels, hide them directly; if you happen to have any debtors, make them pay you, or any creditors, don't pay them. — Alexandre Dumas

My superhero name should be Density Girl. — Gini Koch