Labarre Quotes & Sayings

What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes. — Buster Keaton

There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to make one start acting like a child than to be treated like one. It's so infuriating. It took me the longest time to figure out how to stop falling into that trap."
"Yes, exactly," said Kareen eagerly. "You understand! So - how did you make them stop?"
"You can't make them - whoever your particular them is - do anything, really," said Ekaterin slowly. "Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste ... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just ... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that, and walk away. But that's hard. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger — Michael Kirby

The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us. — Pope Francis

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16. — Mark Leyner

Business writer Polly LaBarre notes, The United States spends more on trash bags than ninety other countries spend on everything. — Daniel H. Pink