Barcoleta Quotes & Sayings

I read a lot of older children's books when I was a kid, and you wouldn't believe how many sugar-coated tracts I sucked the sugar off and cheerfully ran off, spitting out the message undigested. (Despite going to church several times every Sunday for my who childhood, I never figured out Aslan was Jesus until told later.) — Jo Walton

The art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'. — John Ruskin

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago. — Steven Spielberg

Crocodiles are really bold, and they do come up on land. — Linda Kozlowski

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people. — Amanda Seyfried

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true. — Elijah Wood

It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then more onto the next. — Jim Butcher

I wonder now whether it isn't dangerous to assign significance to that which is essentially vacant, but we can't seem to avoid it. We cover up the holes with our speech, explaining away the emptiness until we forget it is there. — Siri Hustvedt

Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness. — Rajiv Gandhi

Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water. — Farshad Asl

If I hadn't gone to a private Christian school, I'd never have built up enough animosity to want to have started a band. And now that I have one, the fact that they are giving me such resistance and publicity, they have made me far bigger than they'd ever have wanted me to have become. So I guess in a strange way the Christians have influenced me the most. — Marilyn Manson

The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king. — Ken Harrelson

Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become. — Robert Kiyosaki

[From Old Mortality]
The woman in the picture ... was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times. — Katherine Anne Porter