Barsby Battle Quotes & Sayings

At the approach of spring the red squirrels got under my house, two at a time, directly under my feet as I sat reading or writing, and kept up the queerest chuckling and chirruping and vocal pirouetting and gurgling sounds that ever were heard; and when I stamped they only chirruped the louder, as if past all fear and respect in their mad pranks, defying humanity to stop them. No, you don't - chickaree - chickaree. They were wholly deaf to my arguments, or failed to perceive their force, and fell into a strain of invective that was irresistible. — Henry David Thoreau

Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her. — Rick Riordan

It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered. — Larry Wall

I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a character, as opposed to 25 minutes in a movie. That excites me. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in. — Meghan Daum

I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain. — Paulo Coelho

A favorite cooking method? I'm a fan of all of them! Anything that gets a pile of random ingredients into a cruelty-free dish works for me! — Rory Freedman

I am running for re-election no matter who runs. — Charles B. Rangel

Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terrible courage. I had that courage. — Oscar Wilde

Love was just a word until someone expressed it with a gesture. — Annie Nicholas

Before you read this ride the night train.
Do not sleep. Encounter people you remember,
now long dead, and read to them.
Before you read this.
battle zombies,
watch your step, trust no one,
kiss without thinking. — Neil Gaiman

And I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were not by nature suited for. — Charlotte Rogan

I must always remember what's real. — Terry Pratchett