Barrotes Quotes & Sayings

99 percent of every beautiful thing you ever knew escaped and went back out into the world where you vaguely remembered it. — Ron Padgett

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard. — John W. Gardner

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently. — Anthony Bourdain

It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization. — Karl Marx

You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with. — George Carlin

I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners. — Rex Smith

One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring-clean ... . It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came out from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas that he'd mislaid and forgotten ... . There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish? Ted Hughes, "Leftovers," from The Dreamfighter — Cornelia Funke

I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love of any soul, if, out of sentiment, we must give it, I might as well lavish it on the smallness of an inkwell as on the grand indifference of the stars. — Fernando Pessoa

I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life. — Steve Zahn

till, silently
without one peep, the angels come, their watch to keep.
They'll hold you safe while dreaming deep. The pillow cool beneath your head,
all star lit is your feather bed which glides the moonbeams like a sled,
above towns which glitter blue and red. — Dixie Dawn Miller Goode

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. — William Cowper

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. — Jean Cocteau