Rifqa Barry Quotes & Sayings

When I got to the door I almost had a heart attack. We were parked on a mountain road so narrow, the RV would've toppled over if I'd sneezed wrong. — Rick Riordan

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down. — Peter Ustinov

The point is that if you think you can pinpoint the cause, then you can fool yourself into thinking you can avert the cause. It's deeply egotistical. It's life played as a grand insurance policy. Our myth-making around cancer stems from the same impulse. Because we don't know exactly why most of it happens, we weave a makeshift wisdom around it, a false prophet, which seeps into the common story and feeds our hunger to understand why. The guilt is a byproduct, a way to assign blame and seek absolution. It's a lesser evil than the forces of randomness. And it gives us the illusion of control. — Alanna Mitchell

To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being.
- Arya — Christopher Paolini

You have to really be able to trust the director. It's about the filmmaker and whether or not I'm going to be able to have a relationship with them and want to follow them down that road, wherever it may lead. — Cameron Diaz

I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years. — Claudia Schiffer

To be a father is not simply to bring a child into this world. It is to take care of that child and to give him direction and guidance. It's my mother who always did this for me. I'm surprised that today, because of the World Cup and because the cameras are on my father, that he puts on that jersey and speaks of his son. It's not going to change things because of a World Cup. — Lilian Thuram

while the Tarahumara run to get from point to point, in the process they travel into a zone beyond geography and beyond even the five senses. — Scott Jurek

Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing. — Aldo Leopold

Sin lies at the heart of chaotic world conditions as we now know them and as they have existed through the centuries. — Billy Graham

Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data. — Alex Berenson

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder. — Carl Sagan