Bartz Ranch Quotes & Sayings

It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Captain Queernabs A shabby-looking man in poor clothes — Stephen Hart

I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures. — Richard Thaler

Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations. — Jerry Spinelli

I have often wondered how this circumpolar stars between the Drago and the Lion came to be known as the Great Bear. The ancient Egyptians called them the Unwearied Ones or the Rowers of the Ships of Ra. I prefer the Plough or the Wain or even the Big Dipper. The name of the Septriones, the proud walkers, grips the imagination, but the Great Bear is a plain misnomer. — John Hillaby

Maybe the hardest thing about moving over seas was being in a place where no one but your own family had any memory of you. It was like putting yourself back together in little pieces. — Naomi Shibab Nye

If you smile things will work out. — Serena Williams

I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done anything like that in my life. I was not brought up with the blues or anything like that, and I really, really enjoyed it. — Robert Palmer

Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad. — Amit Ray

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy. — Richard V. Allen

The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song. — Barry Humphries

An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep. — Dieter Rams

Water may change from liquid to vapor and still be fundamentally the same. So powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before. — A.W. Tozer