Barthelemy Rose Quotes & Sayings

When a TV network - not to pick on TV - devotes hours and hours to the salacious details of a crime of passion that affects none of our lives, is that advocacy? No. When an online site collects pictures of cute cats, is that advocacy? Hardly. When a newspaper devotes resources to covering football games, is that advocacy? Sorry, but no. — Jeff Jarvis

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger. — Confucius

I want to keep my private life private. — Cathy Freeman

Near by is an interesting ruin - the meagre remains of an ancient heathen temple - a place where human sacrifices were offered up in those old bygone days when the simple child of Nature, yielding momentarily to sin when sorely tempted, acknowledged his error when calm reflection had shown it him, and came forward with noble frankness and offered up his grandmother as an atoning sacrifice - in those old days when the luckless sinner could keep on cleansing his conscience and achieving periodical happiness as long as his relations held out; — Mark Twain

Make eye contact and small talk. — Timothy Snyder

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. — Zora Neale Hurston

The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like the trajectories of countless raindrops in a storm, blending to create a fog of delusion and counter-delusion. Powerful forces and connections were undoubtedly at play, yet they seemed to have no faces and no names, and it was anybody's guess what we - a crowd of deluded no-talents - could have possibly done to offend them. We had been caught up in a season of hideous magic from which nothing could offer us deliverance.
("Gas Station Carnivals") — Thomas Ligotti

In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for pie. Square pie. — Dan Florence

Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can. — Jim Rohn