Barthelmess Company Quotes & Sayings

Perspective - Use It or Lose It. — Richard Bach

A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering anaesthetic, as the pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed. — John Harvey Kellogg

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. — James George Frazer

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back. — Lois McMaster Bujold

You sorry fucker," Paul says. "If I didn't love your sorry ass so much, I'd have to hate you. — Tammy Falkner

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. — Elizabeth Gaskell

But isn't that the way it is with memory? Give it enough time and it will become worn down and covered in a patina of self-serving omissions. — Jason Mott

I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful. — Ann Druyan

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would. — David Edward Jenkins

Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty. — Stephen King

Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for. — David Thewlis

We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice. — Shawn Amos

Women are made to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde

I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do. — Paul Auster