Berrisford Smith Quotes & Sayings

We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown. — Daphne Oz

It's a small world." ... "When you put it in a cemetery it is. — Kurt Vonnegut

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y — H.L. Mencken

I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there. — Jerry Seinfeld

THE time, it is to be hoped, is gone by when any defence would be necessary of the "liberty of the press" as one of the securities against corrupt or tyrannical government. — John Stuart Mill

Where you crawl and crawl,
where you live in the husks of trees,
where you lie on the wild twigs — Mary Oliver

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting ... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven. — Steve Martin

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. — Jean De La Bruyere

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it. — Eve Ensler

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means. — P.T. Barnum

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet. — Ashwin Sanghi

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that. — Laura Marling

TO MANAGE,MESMERIZE AND MAINTAIN OTHERS .ONE SHOULD HAVE COMMANDING KNOWLEDGE OF SOUL PSYCHOLOGY DIAGNOSIS ART. — Various

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers. — Bill James

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft. — Robin Hobb