Barska Red Quotes & Sayings

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken. — Robert Louis Stevenson

This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did ... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth — William James

Mastering the Art of French Cooking ... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish. — Julia Child

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents. — Jon Voight

It is a scientific fact that the crack between the stove and the kitchen counter serves as a kind of voracious black hole, sucking in all falling objects within a meter radius. — Jared Gulian

It's okay to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth loving. — Cassandra Clare

Sunlight when Maya exited — Harlan Coben

This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The governor of Texas can't do any heavy lifting really. It's not that powerful a position. — Kinky Friedman

So endgames are naturally messy.

They may not be very dynamic, but when an active war is shutting down, there is still a lot of cleaning up to do. It may sound grim, but that's what it looks like. There are broken things everywhere, wounds and corpses, general messiness. Things collapsing due to zemblanity forces that have been set in motion but are too large to control. — Venkatesh G. Rao

Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live. — Joyce Carol Oates

To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation. — Anonymous

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I;m not going to compete with you. I'm better than you are at what I do. And you're better than I am at what you do. — Stieg Larsson

I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements. — Oprah Winfrey