Bari Tessler Quotes & Sayings

Beside every great writer is a great listener. — Nanette L. Avery

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. — Joni Mitchell

I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful. — Angelina Jolie

FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetch's playing! I have always loved that about him. — Rufus Reid

Because elites dominating extractive institutions fear creative destruction, they will resist it, and any growth that germinates under extractive institutions will be ultimately short lived. — Daron Acemoglu

I don't know why we keep building these fucking dams," Adams said in a surprisingly forceful British whisper. "Not only do they cause environmental and social disasters, they, with very few exceptions, all fail to do what they were supposed to do in the first place. Look at the Amazon, where they've all silted up. What is the reaction to that? They're going to build another eighty of them. It's just balmy. We must have beaver genes or something ... There's just this kind of sensational desire to build dams, and maybe that should be looked at and excised from human nature. Maybe the Human Genome Project can locate the beaver/dam-building gene and cut that out. — Douglas Adams

Hope or fear overcomes reason. — Jandy Nelson

The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit. — Alan Watts

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.' — Russell Brand