Royle Family Barbara Quotes & Sayings

We need useless theory more than ever today. — Slavoj Zizek

We're all broken. We all have cracks. It's not about making it through life in one piece it's about narrowing the gap between the fissures so we don't shatter."
Ted Basel to Jo Nehr in my next "Surrender" story — Riley Murphy

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works. — Albert Einstein

We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles of life and truth. The Lord wishes to establish a closer and more intimate relationship between Himself and us; He wishes to elevate us in the scale of being and intelligence, and this can only be done through the medium of the everlasting Gospel which is specially prepared for this purpose. — Lorenzo Snow

I was a lot better at starting stories than I was at finishing them. — George R R Martin

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I have a whole lot of songs. — Juicy J

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall. — Ouida

I'll tell you why I keep my scrapbooks. It's in case my real father shows up .I never met him, don't even know his name ... I've got this feeling he's out there searching for me. When he bursts through the door and tells me he's spent a fortune on detectives looking all over the world for me, I'm not going to sit there like a dumb cluck when he asks me what I've been doing. I'm going to yank out my eleven scrapbooks filled with my experiences and inner-most thoughts on life lived in three time zones in America. I was a Girl Scout for three months when we lived in Atlanta. I couldn't get those square knots down for anything, but I got the big concept. Be prepared. Addie always told me, It's more important to get the big concept than to be an expert in the small stuff. — Joan Bauer

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. — Emile M. Cioran

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian. — Chris Tucker

I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque. — Anna Journey

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns. — Fiona Shaw

When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank. — Charles Dickens

There is much in this world that hurts us, but if we let pain become our master, we live our lives as slaves. — Hannah Hart