Pieper Ranch Quotes & Sayings

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me. — Barbra Streisand

I discovered that kids hate for any food to resemble the form it originally was in nature. They are on to something because that processed garbage was insanely delicious. — Mindy Kaling

Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places ... gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis. — Gay Talese

Life listens to you, but do you speak to life? — Richardson Susairaj

If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself. — Jonas Armstrong

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were. — Andre Malraux

On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years. — Ron Currie Jr.

Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point. — Kevin Hart

I want a good love story and a happy ending. Period. I don't want to deal with real life shit in a book. I'm reading to escape. — R.L. Griffin

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation. — Will Rogers

The development of the mind comes through movement — Maria Montessori

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy. — Aaron Copland

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life ... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds? — George Santayana

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not
fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common
prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless
like a tree? Fight the
thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman
who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his
death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can
give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike
upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars. — G.K. Chesterton

Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. There's nothing like a shovelful of dirt to encourage literacy. — Margaret Atwood