Barters Island Quotes & Sayings

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition. — Christopher Hitchens

Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit. — Andy Goldsworthy

You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children ... — Rhonda Byrne

I learned a valuable lesson from that editorial experience, and it's served me well in just about every dealing I've had with editors since. If they say there's a problem, they're probably right. Believe them. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here. — Charles Stross

Certain names always awake certain prejudices. — Philibert Joseph Roux

Women talk about love. From girlhood on, we learn that conversations about love are a gendered narrative, a female subject ... Femaleness in patriarchal culture marks us from the very beginning as unworthy or not as worthy, and it should come as no surprise that we learn to worry most as girls, as women, about whether we are worthy of love. — Bell Hooks

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight — Ezra Pound

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell. — Matt Lucas

It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds. — Cornelia Funke

When I started, every film got a full theatrical distribution. Today, almost no low budget films, maybe two or three a year, will get a full theatrical distribution. We've been frozen out of that, which means they must be aware that for a full theatrical distribution it either has to be something like Saw or some exploitation film of today or an extremely well made personal film. — Roger Corman

I use my markers as I go from place to place. Seeing evidence of my small rebellions, spots where my death was allowed to vent and has impacted the world around me, no longer safely encapsulated inside. My life is made of these tiny maps, my paths always steady as I move inside a constricted area, the only one I should ever be allowed to know.
My violence is everywhere here.
And I like it. — Mindy McGinnis

Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense. Did I think Adrian's action an implied — Julian Barnes