Bdeir Family Tree Quotes & Sayings

Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Waking up the next morning was torture. I dragged myself to the bathroom feeling like I'd been thrown against a brick wall. Repeatedly. By the Hulk. — K.J. McPike

belief is the death of intelligence. — Robert Anton Wilson

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis. — Amiri Baraka

There are no alternatives. You live with what is. And you don't let your ghosts rent room in your head. — Richard K. Morgan

The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered. — Ervin Seale

A VERY ACCURATE ONE. YOU SEE, YOU ARE HAVING A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, WHICH INESCAPABLY MEANS THAT I MUST UNDERGO A NEAR-VIMES EXPERIENCE. DON'T MIND ME. CARRY ON WITH WHATEVER YOU WERE DOING. I HAVE A BOOK. — Terry Pratchett

What's precious about somebody like Bill Vollmann is that, even though there's a great deal of formal innovation in his fictions, it rarely seems to exist for just its own sake. It's almost always deployed to make some point (Vollmann's the most editorial young novelist going right now, and he's great at using formal ingenuity to make the editorializing a component of his narrative instead of an interruption) or to create an effect that's internal to the text. His narrator's always weirdly effaced, the writing unself-conscious, despite all the "By-the-way-Dear-reader" intrusions. In a way it's sad that Vollmann's integrity is so remarkable. Its remarkability means it's rare — David Foster Wallace

It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and begun to understand the great vistas of nonknowledge that you have, that you can claim to have been educated at all. — Christopher Hitchens

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind. — Sally Pearson

Purple? Boy, what kind of a homosexual are you, anyway? That's not purple, Mary, that color up there is mauve. — Tony Kushner

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose. — Andrew Garfield

If I stand at this window long enough
I will see the long thread of history
float randomly through the breeze.
This is all I know about peace. — Sherman Alexie

Monday is President's Day and former President Bill Clinton is very excited. He is taking George Bush, Sr. to 'Hooters' ... George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton have been spending more and more time together. Doesn't that seem like an unusual couple to you, honestly? Earlier today they went to go see that gay cowboy movie. — David Letterman