Djunabarnes Quotes & Sayings

I cannot afford to make mistakes. — Bashar Al-Assad

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it. — Dan Quayle

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God. — Gregg Allman

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes," [T.S. Eliot] wrote, "who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent. — Ross Wetzsteon

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well. — Marcel Carne

I'm about to enter a national ass-kicking contest. With no legs. And a massive ass. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus

If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession. — Gerald McRaney

Ho' law an' Civ'lize ain't always the same, nay, see Kona got Kona law but they ain't got one flea o' Civ'lize. — David Mitchell

Younger managers learn quickly that, whatever the public protestations to the contrary, bosses generally want pliable and agreeable subordinates, especially during periods of crisis. Clique leaders want dependable, loyal allies. Thos who regularly raise objections to what a boss or a clique leader really desires run the risk of being considered problems themselves and of being labeled "outspoken," or "nonconstructive," or "doomsayers," "naysayers," or "crepehangers. — Robert Jackall

We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

Grab this day by the neck and kiss it. — Bill Murray

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. — Pablo Picasso

We are shaped by our tools. — Sherry Turkle

Wisdom keeps us from making foolish mistakes. — Diane Goold

I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are. — Lorrie Moore