Josethebarber Quotes & Sayings

It really hurts when I see two good friends are
not talking to each other from long ago. Life is
just for once. There are so many arguments you
can win with but you are gonna lose the person — Pawan Mehra

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence. — Dan Hill

Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe. — Saint Augustine

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! — Robin Williams

Are you committed to your highest vision for your life or are you just satisfied to dream? — Colette Baron Reid

He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as "grok" which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. — Robert A. Heinlein

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west. — Rodney Dangerfield

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. — Frank Zappa

Then Siddhartha had spent the night at his house with dancers and wine, had pretended to be superior to his companions, which he no longer was. He had drunk much wine and later after midnight he went to bed, tired and yet agitated, nearly in tears and in despair. In vain did he try to sleep. His heart was so full of misery, he felt he could no longer endure it. He was full of nausea which overpowered him like a distasteful wine, or music that was too sweet and superficial, or like the too sweet smile of the dancers or the too sweet perfume of their hair and breasts. But above all he was nauseated with himself, with his perfumed hair, with the smell of the wine from his mouth, with the soft, flabby appearance of his skin. — Hermann Hesse

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view. — Lisa Cholodenko

Go ahead, bully me; but in 30 years, the only thing people will remember is that I am your boss — J.E. Allotey

If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company. — Dilip Shanghvi

I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed. — Joan Collins