Barend Spies Quotes & Sayings

Shiver me clitoris, that's an evil vessel,' Severance says. — Charlie Human

The only sin is the sin of being born — Samuel Beckett

He is a horse who will burn and bloat and explode in the sun. Put him back in the oven and let him cook until he's done. — Tamora Pierce

You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years. — Joe Dumars

Nelson's first thought is that Father Hennessey looks as bad as he does. The priest is still an intimidating presence, with his rugby player's shoulders and boxer's nose, but his eyes are shadowed and he looks as if he hasn't slept. He puts his hat on the floor and accepts a cup of coffee. 'I'm giving up coffee for Lent,' he says. 'Better make the most of it.'

'This stuff's enough to make you give up coffee for life,' says Nelson. 'I should know. I've drunk about a gallon of it.'

Father Hennessey smiles and drinks his coffee in silence for a few minutes. — Elly Griffiths

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. — Sylvia Plath

The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents. — Tom DeLay

Male privilege is, in a word, violence. — Kate Bornstein

Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear. — Debasish Mridha

As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible. — Hannah More

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible ... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible. — Paul Klee