Barrell Rye Quotes & Sayings

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. — Swami Vivekananda

In the meantime, powerful industries and business investors spend considerable sums of money in secretive lobbying; persuading, cajoling and needling politicians to pursue policies that are, in effect, corporate welfare programmes. Corporations and banks receive huge public subsidies and bailouts, while the rest of us are largely left to the cold biting winds of 'market' economics. It's socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the rest of us. — David Cromwell

The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the existing categories. I call these kids the "Keanu Reeves Generation," after the actor who has a Hawaiian father and a Welsh mother. — Richard Rodriguez

Do not envy the rich; pity them. Matthew 19:24. — Felix Wantang

Baseball shaded my entire outlook on life, because that's how I first saw the world. I looked at everything, even today, through what I learned about the game. Like pacing yourself, focusing yourself, preparing yourself for what you want to do, keeping yourself healthy for the game. I do all that through the eyes of a ballplayer. — Kurt Russell

Republicans have come up to me to say, 'Hey listen. My knee hurts. What do you think I should do?' I'll give them my recommendations. — Raul Ruiz

No valentines from the cats again. — Lynne Truss

I am defending the Jews to prevent them from becoming extinct, because they are doomed to become extinct if they continue this way ... I am convinced that the solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things. — Tom Kite

Do not the spirits who dwell in the ether envy man his pain? — Kahlil Gibran

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people — Daniel Webster

Airports are not simulations of cities; rather cities are simulations of airports. — Benjamin H. Bratton