Klaudine Barba Quotes & Sayings

Don't fight such a current if it feels right. Trust your material if it's taking you into terrain you didn't intend to enter but where the vibrations are good. Adjust your style accordingly and proceed to whatever destination you reach. Don't become the prisoner of a preconceived plan. Writing is no respecter of blueprints. — William Zinsser

It is the rare - maybe even nonexistent - politician who will admit this, but number one on the politicians to-do list is always to get reelected. Nothing else comes close. The economy, the stock market, the war on terrorism ... NOTHING comes ahead of getting reelected. Staying in power is job number one. — Neal Boortz

Every wall is a door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I knew that I liked what I was doing, that it was what I wanted to do for a living, and that the profession didn't really exist so much. So I had to create it.? — Ronda Rousey

Today they may not even be able to experiment with such technologies if their in-house computer systems are restricted by their IT departments. — John Palfrey

What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters. — Mitt Romney

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself. — Miguel De Cervantes

Words are loaded pistols. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.' — Marion G. Romney

Portraiture has its risks, and I suppose a dissident Free Presbyterian fatwa is one of them. — Alexander McCall Smith

If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved. — Jules Verne

She pulls on her heavy boots and carries the water bucket past the rose bushes, past the herb garden, and back to the barn behind the house. Her steps kick up the scents of herbs: thyme, mint, and lemon balm. The plants send up new stems each year from the roots that survived the winter and grew up again along the path. The perfumed walk is a mystical part of her world. Walking here is her favorite part of mornings. Sometimes, this is the highlight of her day. — J.J. Brown

To preach that Jesus is the true King over all kings, the only true Son of God, and therefore the only one worthy of worship is not merely a personal conviction of individual piety but is necessarily a public, political, and polemical proclamation. — Jonathan T. Pennington

Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich ... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same. — Andy Roddick

I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say. — Terry McMillan