Bartz Klauser Quotes & Sayings

The trees are born, they develop their leaves and fruits, they grow and die. I can't ever understand why a tree is a "what" and not a "who". — Sophia Newtown

You'd like for me to show you?" "What do you think?" "All right, Ethan. All right. But I have to warn you ... I'm going to ask for something in return. — Blake Crouch

She looked up at me, eyes puffy, nose running. Real crying is like real sex. If you really do it, it isn't pretty. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Ignorance is kind of bliss. — Jackie DeShannon

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs. — Aoife O'Donovan

Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to adopt the form for prose was confirmed by Richard Howard's book of dramatic monologues, Untitled Subjects. — Norman Lock

The longer we stayed together, the longer our list of cuts and bruises grew - both inside and out. — Leylah Attar

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to. — Tom Landry

When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular,and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
from When the death comes — Mary Oliver

We have a nice home and we love each other and that's enough. — Trina Paulus

I'm going out, I'm gonna drink myself to death
And in the crowd I see you with someone else
I brace myself 'cause I know it's going to hurt
But I like to think at least things can't get any worse — Florence Welch

The sky already fell. Now what? — Steven Wright

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it. — Karl Kraus

All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter. — Philip Jose Farmer