Edward Emerson Barnard Quotes & Sayings

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction. — George Bernard Shaw

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there. — J. J. Watt

You have the grace for happy life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public. — Star Jones

Is her husband a cop too? That's the way it usually works in — Terry Hayes

My cat is older than many fashion models. I won't even discuss the fact that she also weighs more. — Gina Barreca

I don't typically have a social life, I don't have a family, and I will stay up all night, every night, for days on end, to solve something that I think is solvable. And it's very frustrating sometimes, because I know that I'm like that, and it's not always a positive result. — Shane Carruth

I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to be all the time stoned and on weed. It didn't look right and it doesn't look right today either and the damage drugs have done to civilizations are too enormous. And besides, I don't need any drug to step out of myself. I don't want them and I do not need them. — Werner Herzog

One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively. — Pema Chodron

When you're out in the military situation, you can't take pictures at night because flashlights. So at night and in bad weather and in dark weather, the cameras went into the fish tackling box, which was waterproof, and I would just use my mind and try to keep quotes there and write down little stories. — Horst Faas

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism. — Nick Cohen

I was worried before I saw the play, thinking I don't really want to see a play about Thomas Merton. He probably wouldn't have either, ideally. Then it isn't. It's more about us and it's about our relationship to what he may or may not have thought about. It's its own thing completely. — Will Oldham

Flesh is the Bible's word for unperfected human nature. Leaving off the "h" and spelling it in reverse, we have the word self. Flesh is the self-life: it is what we are when we are left to our own devices. — Billy Graham