Kate Baer Quotes & Sayings

Our ideas held no water but we used them like a dam. — Modest Mouse

Americans tend to overanalyze. Like during the space race, NASA spent fifty thousand dollars developing a zero-gravity pen that didn't skip. Know what the Russians did? Pencil. Think about — Tim Dorsey

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not. — William Friedkin

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s. — Solomon Ortiz

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility. — Ovid

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. — Oscar Wilde

Invest in a couple of really good things - a great, classic coat; a good pair of shoes; and a timeless bag - then fill in the gaps with lower-priced pieces. — Nina Garcia

This was the first thing I ever said, "All right, I'm gonna try to do the very best I can." Instead of doing this, "All right, I'll work at like three-quarters speed, and then I can always figure that if I just hadn't been a fuckup, the book coulda been really good." You know that defense system? You write the paper the night before, so if it doesn't get a great grade, you know that it could've been better.
And this worked
I worked as hard as I could on this. And in a weird way, you might think that would make me more nervous about whether people would like it. But there was this weird
you know like when you work out really well, there's this kind of tiredness that's real pleasant, and it's sort of placid. — David Lipsky

I've heard of denial," Langdon quipped blithely, "but I don't think it exists. — Dan Brown

Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us all to move forward in life and to understand that, perfection doesn't exist. — Martin R. Lemieux

The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, refresh our souls. — Ronald Reagan

She bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands.
"There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things. — Alan Brennert

To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where. — Barbara Brown Taylor