Bartun Quotes & Sayings

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice. — Henry David Thoreau

Zane Hollander stood in profile a few feet away. Sophie's breath caught. Up close, he looked like he'd been carved from the most glorious, most gorgeous stone on the planet. His blond hair was straight, on the longer side and sticking up in GQ messiness. Square jaw, high cheekbones, perfect nose. Then he turned and pierced her with ice-blue eyes that knocked her off-balance.
Literally.
She tripped over her own feet and face-planted right into the sand. — Robin Bielman

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy. — Paul Bloom

I'm easily entertained. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off. — Henry David Thoreau

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. — Barbara Kruger

Finding out what you don't like is, paradoxically, as valuable as finding out what you do like. — Susan Jeffers

Family is what works. — Ian McDonald