Veljko Barbieri Quotes & Sayings

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth. — Sarah Kay

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster. — Ali Farahnakian

Every damn one of us has faults. I feel like I was dealt an especially crummy hand."

"It got ugly. I became a man possessed by inner demons that could not be caged. I was desperate for answers that were never forthcoming. Jen avoided me like the plague. She was ever fearful of the questions that I refused to voice. All of my answers poured forth deliciously from the bottle. — Virginia Aird

If a man is to become fully himself - and this is not something that happens automatically just because you arrive at a particular age - he is going to have to give up some things in the process. Be it drugs, infidelity, childishness, lying, fear of intimacy, violence - none of these things contribute to being a man — Rod Stryker

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. — William Griffith Wilson

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there. — Henry Ward Beecher

Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

so we can share ourselves openly and honestly. — Mike Van

Look everywhere with your eyes; but with your soul never look at many things, but at one. — Vasily Rozanov

One day things can be going along like they always were and then, suddenly, in a simple rotation of an overheated planet, everything can change. — Dana Reinhardt

Every age has its own collective neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it. — Viktor E. Frankl

My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy. — Bill Burr

One ... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed. — Sigmund Freud