Essays Of Wendell Berry Quotes & Sayings

I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me. — Stephen Fry

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins. — Bernard Arnault

Tyga's one of my best friends ever, so it's so much fun to travel with him. I always like having my friends out on the road with me. — Kylie Jenner

Monkey see, monkey do. Human being don't see, human being don't do. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One learned to take time to savor life, much as one took time to savor a good meal or glass of wine. The French called it "l'entente de la vie," the harmony of life. — David McCullough

A humming sound alerted him to a message on his cell phone. He looked at it.
'She said yes'.
Yes! Yes! Yes! — Tina Folsom

As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives. — Wendell Berry

I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance. — Tony DiTerlizzi

A writer is not always conscious of the influences he has received. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

At this point, I want to say point-blank what I hope is already clear: though agrarianism proposes that everybody has agrarian responsibilities, it does not propose that everybody should be a farmer or that we do not need cities. Nor does it propose that every product be a necessity. Furthermore, any thinkable human economy would have to grant to manufacturing an appropriate and honorable place. Agrarians would insist only that any manufacturing enterprise should be formed and scaled to fit the local landscape, the local ecosystem, and the local community, and that it should be locally owned and employ local people. They would insist, in other words, that the shop or factory owner should not be an outsider, but rather a sharer in the fate of the place and the community. The deciders should live with the results of their decisions. — Wendell Berry

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people. — Rickie Lee Jones

Laurent!' said Makedon, greeting Laurent warmly. 'I am glad to take up your invitation to hunt with you in Acquitart when this campaign is over.' He clapped Laurent on the shoulder.
Laurent said, 'My invitation.'
Damen wondered whether he had ever been clapped on the shoulder in his life.
'I sent a messenger to my homestead this very morning to tell them to begin preparing light spears for chamois. — C.S. Pacat

What a domineering motherfucker. Who does he think he is? — Ella James