Billina Billina Quotes & Sayings

What matter though the scorn of fools be given
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! — Sarah Josepha Hale

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently ... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. — Anita Roddick

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality. — Robert Wyatt

There is something about laughter that can take away all the darkness. — Christina Applegate

It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a soul mate! — Judith Orloff

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever. — Louisa May Alcott

I hoped to burn out, through Hella, my image of Giovanni and the reality of his touch - I hoped to drive out fire with fire. — James Baldwin

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts. — Sol Stein

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest. — Barbara M. White

Get lost, Dorothy." "It's the thing we don't expect, Billina, that usually happens," observed the girl, thoughtfully. — L. Frank Baum

Every system has it's own fall. — Deyth Banger

With bitterness, then. But that I have forbidden myself. With ridicule, then, which is more affable, which keeps itself transparent and could not care less; and like a bird into a nest I can slip back into a treetrunk and laugh to myself. And keep quiet too, perhaps just to keep quiet so as to dream outward, for the seventh sense is sleep. — Wilma Stockenstrom

I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies. — Michael Douglas

The feeling of being a digression not the link in the argument,
a new direction, an offshoot, the limb going on elsewhere,
and liking that error, a feeling of being capable because an error,
of being wrong perhaps altogether wrong a piece from another set
stripped of position stripped of true function
and loving that error, loving that filial form, that break from perfection
where the complex mechanism fails, where the stranger appears in the clearing,
out of nowhere and uncalled for, out of nowhere to share the day. — Jorie Graham