Bartiki Quotes & Sayings

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint. — Rodney King

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

No roll in the hay is worth losing what I've got. — Laura Wiess

How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one — John Creasey

My books are written with a strong chronological spine. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The future of desegregation was not just about reaching mere numerical diversity. It was about fostering radical diversity, the wild protean sort. It was about what might flower when people could really meet across the lines. The cover of the fifth volume of the Yardbird Reader, rendered in day-bright Oakland A's yellow and green, featured the collective caught as they laughed at someone's wisecrack. They looked simultaneously hip and welcoming. In this colorized vision of American renewal, everyone could share in the joy. — Jeff Chang

Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have. — Gretchen Rubin

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. — Victoria Beckham

A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong. — Zach Galifianakis

I thought again about throwing language all over a scene, wondered if the emotional mystery of one's response to place doesn't lie in the inchoate play of possible words, of felt meanings and poetries, of the sublime, the romantic, the picturesque, Zen; even, perhaps, something new. And perhaps that twinge of disappointment one always feels at the words chosen - and thus also at the glorious scene-comes from the dream that in that instant of indecision and all-decision before your mind clarified its response to beauty, you just might have held within you language finally saturated with all the earth's meaning." Page 211 — Daniel Duane

If they aren't hating on you, then you're not doing anything right. If women aren't jealous of you, talking about you and cutting you down, then you're a nerd, and I would never want to be that. — Heidi Montag