Gretchen Barretto Quotes & Sayings

One tends to write beyond what's needed. — James Schuyler

The Stetson passage is an allusion to Frazer theory in The Golden Bough that religion originated as agricultural engineering. Through a grotesque process of literalization, all of the dying gods and heroes in The Golden Bough, along with Christ and the Fisher King, are transferred from mythic to modern consciousness ( Frazer himself was an unabashed positivist) to be made explicable in scientific terms as fertilizer. — Jewel Spears Brooker

But something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging. — Paulo Coelho

It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out. — Samuel Moyn

I tell you, just when you think you know someone, she shows up looking pretty and carrying a guitar. — Emmy Laybourne

In the long run, your actions are always congruent with your underlying thinking. — Brian P. Moran

Again, he thought better of this tactic.
Sweet lady, there are those of us who sleep lying down, and those of us who sleep standing up. I can do both. — Cynthia Hand

And I've been trying everything I can think of since to make up for it - short of tattooing her name on my ass and streaking across Yankee Stadium.
I was saving that for next week. — Emma Chase

People who know how to act are never preachers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. — Albert Camus

Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time. — Eugene Kennedy

Only if you stop using the F-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it. — Penny Reid

The most famous living artist in America is Andy Warhol, unfortunately. — John Heilpern