Barzola Quotes & Sayings

But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn't done before. — Gregory Maguire

Some days, like today, my aim and timing is so true it takes my breath away and I feel certain Mortain's hand guides my own. — Robin LaFevers

Adrien Bach, main character from The Maker:
You know, when you're a kid, you think you're going to grow up to be something special, do something important. You're not going to be a regular Joe like everybody else. But then you get out there and life starts to hit you. It hits you so many times, eventually you just can't get up anymore. Or won't.
And then you just don't know. Those dreams seem to fade away, and suddenly you're not sure who you are anymore. — Wes Moore

THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, that, in a certain sense, it has divided mankind, almost from the remotest ages, but in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself under new conditions, and requires a different and more fundamental treatment. — John Stuart Mill

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody. — Willie Mays

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq, he didn't expect President Bush to 'f
it up as badly as he did.' Here's some breaking news, tomorrow former Vice President Al Gore expected to endorse Howard Dean as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States - and you thought John Kerry was using four letter words before! Actually, to John Kerry, Dean is a four letter word. — Jay Leno

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions. — James Harvey Robinson

We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy. — Franklin Graham

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought. — Thomas Carlyle

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining. — Samuel Beckett

My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.' — Cy Twombly

I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician. — Ian Anderson

Loving what you do gives you the ultimate joy of life. — Debasish Mridha

I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. — Robert Green Ingersoll