Barnyard Sayings Quotes & Sayings

Prosperity sometimes exhibits a little folly. — Publilius Syrus

But we were chumps and we knew it. As makers of sentences we were practically fetal, beneath notice, unlaunched, fooling around in our spare time or on somebody else's dime. Nobody loved our sentences as we loved them, and so they congealed or grew sour on our tongues.
We barely glanced at our wall-scribblings for fear of what a few weeks or even hours might expose in our infatuations. Our photocopied fortune slips we'd find in muddy clogs in storm drains, tangled with advertising flyers, unheeded.
Our manuscripts? Those were unspeakable secrets, kept not only from the world but from each other.
My pages were shameful, occluded everywhere with xxxxxx's of regret. I scurried to read Clea's manuscript every time she left the apartment but never confessed that I even knew it existed.
Her title was "Those Young Rangers Thought Love Was a Scandal Like a Bald White Head." Mine was "I Heard the Laughter of the Sidemen from Behind Their Instruments. — Jonathan Lethem

At most schools, the social, intellectual, and spiritual components are confined to separate experiential spheres. We party, we learn, and we contemplate the metaphysical, but we rarely do all three simultaneously and en masse. Maybe most college students aren't looking for spiritual euphoria from their schools, but I can't say I blame the ones who are. — Kevin Roose

When living and loving could be so easy, why do we make it so hard? — Marty Rubin

It's hard to talk sensibly with giants - their massive heads tend to get lost in the clouds — Rick Poynor

Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl. — Frederick The Great

But I long to have a really good time for once and to laugh so hard it hurts. We're stuck in this house like lepers, — Anne Frank

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe. — Brother Andrew

Happy the eyes that can close — Alan Paton

We will extend our arms to you[world] if you unclench your fists. — Barack Obama

Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight. — Michael Pollan