Bondareva Quotes & Sayings

Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds. — Phil Robertson

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat. — Kirby Larson

Do you think I haven't noticed? You can't wait to be free of me. I drink and then you bolt up, as if you've had to force yourself to endure my presence." She'd started to sob then. "I've always tried to be clean when I come to you. I spend hours in the tub, washing myself. But I cannot find the dirt that you see."
-Marissa to Wrath — J.R. Ward

With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary.
With the improper diet, no doctor can help — Gabriel Cousens

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do. — Frank Oz

And of course, being a gentleman, he let her go first, not that there was any kind of thank-you. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business. — Calvin Coolidge

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. — Samuel Johnson

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested. — Andrea Bocelli

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up. — Jimmy Connors

[The Toaster]
A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red
sits at my elbow and toasts my bread.
I hand him fat slices, then one by one
he hands them back when he sees they are done. — William Jay Smith

If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing. — Les Claypool

I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits, and I had to tell her that that was the happiest she was going to be for the next two hours. — Clive Barker