Barraults Quotes & Sayings

God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. — Paul Erdos

There is something in the spirit of song ... that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired. — Charles W. Nibley

To succeed in creating wealth, you must learn to control the mechanics of profit and understand the laws of wealth, rather than focusing in accumulating paper-money. — Daniel Marques

It was impossible to be intimidating when the person you were staring down was a foot taller than you. — James S.A. Corey

Vasco bought a bottle of vodka to celebrate and they drank it in the old sailors' graveyard in Mangrove South. This was where the funeral business had first put down its roots. Over the wall, between two warehouses, Jed could just make out the Witch's Fingers, four long talons of sand that lay in the mouth of the river. Rumour had it that, on stormy nights a century ago, they used to reach out, gouge holes in passing ships, and drag them down. Hundreds of wrecks lay buried in that glistening silt. The city's black heart had beaten strongly even then. There was one funeral director, supposedly, who used to put lamps out on the Fingers and lure ships to their doom. — Rupert Thomson

To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it. — Jorge Luis Borges