Shellia Barnett Quotes & Sayings

I don't give a shit about pretty," I informed her. "I'm a superhero. Superheroes don't need pretty. — Ruth Ozeki

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult. — Giovanni Ribisi

The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing "sport" and kills for the pleasure of killing; not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted. — Gilbert Murray

If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance? — Jack Ma

I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets. — Gabriel E. Gomez

A frightened man is a beaten man. — George R R Martin

Without the isnad, the hadith was considered worthless. Muslims put less stock into sirah literature than hadith specifically because sirah does not record isnad. — Nabeel Qureshi

Faith should be tempered with logic and reasoning. — J. Bartell

Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? — Saul Bellow

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us. — Helen Vendler

How can you stay so calm?
It helps if you're terrified. — John Flanagan