Barkann Quotes & Sayings

A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children. — Joey Lauren Adams

He who commits his life to this son of man does not die, but he who does not commit his life to him destroys himself by not trusting to what is life itself Division (death) consists in this, that life came into the world, but men go away from that life. — Leo Tolstoy

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything. — H.L. Mencken

In caving to an extremist minority that represents no one but itself, you acknowledge its power. — Charb

[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better. — William J. Clinton

I'm striving for greatness, reaching for the stars, and trying to avoid being burnt by the sun! — Joan L. Sample

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another. — Henry David Thoreau

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it. — Roseanne Barr

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room. — Nancy Sinatra

He doesn't stop talking for most of the three-hour flight about his time in "'Nam." Finally the conversation slows, and I ask him what he's done since leaving the army.

He sums it up in three words: "I'm in insurance."

And that's it. That's all he has to say about the following forty years.

I think I may be in a similar situation with the whole marriage bit. Three words: "I got married. — Rick Springfield

In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety. — Neil Gaiman

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan — Eric Cantona

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me. — Callie Khouri

Don't dis the geek," J.J. said, turning his attention back to his laptop. "Diamonds are overrated; we are actually a girl's best friend. — Robert J. Crane