Guilles Barr Quotes & Sayings

As I change my thoughts, the world around me changes. — Louise Hay

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world — Stephen R. Donaldson

You would think that, by sheer chance, there would come a time when you daughter's two dances would be close together, ideally near the beginning. But the dance studio makes sure this never happens, using the same computer scheduling program that the cable-TV company uses to make sure that the technician, for whom you have been waiting eleven hours, rings your doorbell only when you have just commenced pooping. — Dave Barry

He treats books like treasured, rare things, and I guess they are, but my father used to dog-ear books and read them until they fell apart, and I like his method better — Beth Revis

Why would you go out and not drink? Just stay home and sit there. — Chelsea Handler

Pornography, in my opinion, has been much misunderstood, for it doesn't develop sex fiends and send them roaming alleyways - it is an anodyne for the sexually oppressed and unrequited, for what is the aim of pornography if not to stimulate masturbation? And surely masturbation is the pleasanter alternative for men "on the muscle," as they say in horse-breeding circles. — Truman Capote

My husband knows the meaning of sacrifice and support and he doesn't have a problem reminding me when I fall short. He will explain to me how and why this would jeopardize or compromise our relationship. — Heather Headley

There is no excuse. If you want to write, write.This is your life, you are responsible for it.You will not live forever.Don't wait. Make the time now. — Natalie Goldberg

It's funny, you know, time does travel pretty quickly and I do have good friends, and the further away I go from them in location, it matters that I keep on the same line and the same groove that I had and preserve that groove with people who I see seldom. — Robert Plant

In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates. — Patricia Hampl

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.' — Brendan Myers

A place for everything, everything in its place. — Benjamin Franklin

Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is, it could have been far longer had I gone with an omniscient third-person narrator, or multiple point-of-view characters, since either of those would have enabled me to impart much more detailed information about the history and geography of the world. — Neal Stephenson

It's a cycle ... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs. — Steve Maraboli