Barthelmess Christmas Quotes & Sayings

she acknowledges Thomas only by bending down and scraping a handful of dirt into her hands, her fingernails filling with the cold moist earth and making them brown at the edges. And then she tosses it onto his coffin, where bits and pieces of torn grass and weeds have mixed with the tender soil and are sliding in a small pile down the sides of the domed casket. — Tiffani Burnett-Velez

Ah, is this thing that you call tinola a variety of lotus which makes people - er - forgetful? — Jose Rizal

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly. — Peter Hoeg

I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that's something that's really interesting to watch. — Josh Radnor

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for. — Emmanuel Jal

We sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play. — Alice Hegan Rice

My luck was without equal, my life was a poem, and I was certain that one day, someone was going to write the beautiful tale of my dental autobiography. End of story. — Valeria Luiselli

The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace. PSALM 29:11 — Anne Graham Lotz

Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune. — T-Pain

Do you want to live in a world where things are possible or one where they aren't? — Lena Roy

Continually, a storm blew through our world and it always had, and the only place I knew where this was formulated, the most extreme yet simplest things, was in these holy scriptures. — Karl Ove Knausgard

A particularly significant example of brain against body, or measures against matter, is urban man's total slavery to clocks. A clock is a convenient device for arranging to meet a friend, or for helping people to do things together, although things of this kind happened long before they were invented. Clocks should not be smashed; they should simply be kept in their place. And they are very much out of place when we try to adapt our biological rhythms of eating, sleeping, evacuation, working, and relaxing to their uniform circular rotation. Our slavery to these mechanical drill masters has gone so far and our whole culture is so involved with it that reform is a forlorn hope; without them civilization would collapse entirely. A less brainy culture would learn to synchronize its body rhythms rather than its clocks. — Alan W. Watts

Everywhere in nature we are taught the lessons of patience and waiting. We want things a long time before we get them, and the fact that we want them a long time makes them all the more precious when they come. — Joseph F. Smith

What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone. — Tina Brown