Prodaniuk Barbara Quotes & Sayings

I used to take my morning tea at her kiosk and I took an interest in what she was doing. I later learnt she was taking care of her grandchildren. Sadly, she was taken ill and had to close her nylon-walled smoky shack. But all the wit and cunning of the character came from her. — Stanley Gazemba

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have. — Ernie Harwell

Thomas Merton wrote, "it is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not 'what he ought to be.' If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we will do away with him altogether."50 — Eugene H. Peterson

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences. — Anna Held

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair. — Leo Buscaglia

When we are allowed two seconds of freedom, be prepared for me to tear your clothes off."
"That sounds like a perfect plan. — Amanda Carlson

I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party. — Leontyne Price

Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people's lives too. Saving them from their "wild African ways." Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving. One-Fifteen — Angie Thomas

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. — Georgia O'Keeffe

What can't be helped must be endured, Mat Feltner said. And he was a man who knew. — Wendell Berry

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home. — Helen Fisher

George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book. — Bill Maher