Biatain Quotes & Sayings

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past-a combination of both. — Ray Bradbury

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it — Warren Zevon

When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My host family, the lovely Schumachers, always had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were better dressed than anyone I knew in Britain. — Luke Harding

Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it. — Joseph Heller

Our laws and institutions are excellent, but the population is not yet ready. They must develop their views and need to be provided with the right information. We now also have private broadcasters and many are very critical of me, hostile even, yet they operate freely. — Yoweri Museveni

Most of us are quite selfish when it comes to our children, you know. We want things from them: love, the satisfaction of seeing them do well, and so on. Plenty of parents don't think just of their child's best interest. Oh, they may pay lip service to it, but they really think of themselves, of what they get from parenting. — Alexander McCall Smith

When I was a kid my ol' man give me a haltered heifer an' says take her down an git her serviced. An' the fella says, I done it, an' ever' time since then when I hear a business man talkin' about service, I wonder who's gettin' screwed. — John Steinbeck

The American punctuation rule sticks in the craw of every computer scientist, logician, and linguist, because any ordering of typographical delimiters that fails to reflect the logical nesting of the content makes a shambles of their work. — Steven Pinker

In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important. — Walter Isaacson

I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me. — Kate Winslet

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. — Rudyard Kipling

I found that when you are depressed, that's when you do something for somebody else. — Dan Buettner

Do dreams mirror reality, or is it the other way round? The answers to such riddles are hidden from us — Jacob Rosenberg