Singdancewithbarney Quotes & Sayings

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't. — Lauren Bacall

I lock all my scaredness down in my stomach until the fear hardens into something I hardly notice. I myself harden into a person that I hardly notice. — Mary Karr

I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot. — David Sedaris

His curse. "To be thin-skinned, far-sighted, and loose-tongued," he said, "is to feel too sharply, see too clearly, speak too freely. It is to be vulnerable to the world when the world believes itself invulnerable, to understand its mutability when it thinks itself immutable, to sense what's coming before others sense it, to know that the barbarian future is tearing down the gates of the present while others cling to the decadent, hollow past. — Salman Rushdie

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition. — George MacDonald

It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so fettered by the lies and falsehoods they make for themselves, that they cannot see the beauty, goodness, or truth of those meanings. Only a mind that has become free can see such things ... — Yi Mun-Yol

I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken. — M T Anderson

Only cooked time tastes well — Zeeshan Ahmed

The greatest realisation in one's life is this: You don't have to follow others! Creating your own path is creating a new path for the world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nothing important happens in life without a cost. — Jacqueline Novogratz

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers. — Daniel Inouye

Real quality in roles is very hard to come by. Any actor or actress will tell you that. Great movies are hard to come by. It's almost impossible to make one, and most people have to settle for making something less. — Holly Hunter

It's not enough to say it's shocking, it's appalling, and to condemn only individual acts. We need to challenge and bring down the tribal honor-and-shame culture as codified in the Islamic religion. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

As a servant of love every exchange passes through the practice. — Bryant McGill

Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others. — Irene Hunt