Butynski Farm Quotes & Sayings

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one. — Sally Mann

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. — Phil Collins

John McCain, who once called Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson 'forces of evil', has now come out for teaching intelligent design. That is sad, when smart people have to pretend to be so dumb to get elected. — Bill Maher

We are completely saddled and bridled, and ... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide. — Thomas Jefferson

As we have just observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. — Victor Hugo

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work. — Lewis Grizzard

If you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is
excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. — Ray Bradbury

Of course, you can't force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone. — Alan Watts

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential. — Debbie Ford

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight. — Faye Wattleton

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. — Billy Collins

A home without a dog is merely a shelter. — Stephen Huneck

I miss family and friends, and I'd like to get back to work more in Scotland, and do more things like theatre and 'Red Road.' But over here you have the beach and the mountains and the climate. A lot of people diss L.A. as being all tinsel town, fake this and fake that, but a place is only as good as the people you know. — Tony Curran