Bucky Haight Quotes & Sayings

So when you tell a joke, you want to make someone laugh, or if you tell a story about someone who had a heart attack, it may be because you want the listener to exercise. Stories are tools to create social cohesion and to get humans to strategize together. — Peter Guber

On a scale of one to ten, I'd say you rate a one. If the Porta-Potties are ten. — Carolyn Crane

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment. — Paul Klee

Insanity runs in my family, but somehow we've always managed to track it down and catch it again. — Pamela Morris

One can look at a plumber, a labourer, and say without a great sense of irony, 'He is a man, capable of the same heroism as Admiral Nelson or Saint Francis of Assisi.' But no one looks at a woman and says, 'She is a woman, she is capable of the same heroism as Lady Godiva or Anne Askew.' Our heroines are separated from us. So instead of trying to make Man accept us as daughters of heroism, we must raise all women to the level of heroines. — Kerry Greenwood

Scraps of Magic:
These are little scraps of magic & when you paste them together you get a memory of something fine & strong, she said. Sometimes it takes till you're 40 to see it though. — Brian Andreas

Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings / Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings / When ordinary people who are like you and me / Are the builders of their destiny. — Noel Gallagher

Women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own. — Virginia Woolf

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. — Susan Griffin

Most of the matchbooks and little boxes were made of paper, and even if the matches dried out, the containers were split, torn, and shriveled. The damp cardboard dripped with water, discolored and broken. — Penelope Douglas

Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something has happened to the gene pool. — Bob McKenzie

This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world. — Barack Obama

Will had found out the hard way that it's nearly impossible to go to sleep with a flatulent Chihuahua sharing your pillow. — Karin Slaughter

A lot of people can raise money. — Andrew Mason