Bisy Quotes & Sayings

The Bisy Backson is always going somewhere, somewhere he hasn't been. Anywhere but where he is. — Benjamin Hoff

There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves in terms of belief; and they make art. Four of them are about conformity, and in these, everything would go more smoothly if people just would shut up and do what they're told. But in art it doesn't work that way. — Jane Smiley

The World Health Organization found that Americans live in the richest country, but they are also the most anxious.2 The average high school kid today experiences the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s. — Brigid Schulte

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do. — Benjamin Hoff

Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger. — Jennifer Donnelly

One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution. — Valentina Tereshkova

The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things he has no business interfering with, including practically every form of life on earth. — Benjamin Hoff

Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct. — William H. Prescott

The bisy larke, messager of day. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs. — Henry David Thoreau

I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set! — Liz Tuccillo

I'm not the most positive person. — Penny Marshall

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that. — Hailee Steinfeld