Wish List Barbara Ann Kipfer Quotes & Sayings

As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything. — John Candy

The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it is likely that the twentieth century will be looked back at as the time when science provided the first close glimpse of the profundity of human ignorance. We have not reached solutions; we have only begun to discover how to ask questions. — Lewis Thomas

Don't go chasing after the grand theme, the idea, I told my students, as if it is separate from the story itself. The idea or ideas behind the story must come to you through the experience of the novel and not as something tacked onto it. — Azar Nafisi

I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want. — Pat Cadigan

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is. — Jason Statham

I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other. — Robert Pattinson

One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect. — Majora Carter

For ever tear dropped, a new seed within you is planted, from which a garden predicting better days will surely emerge. — Daniel Marques

Our body always tells us what it wants and needs - the question is whether we are listening. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder. — Karl Marx

I did all the serious things that serious people do. The complacent face. The folded hands. The stiff spine. Check, check, double check. — Krista Ritchie

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva. — Frederick Reines

The feeling of the morning after the night before is not a sensation endured by the dissolute only: every morning, for every human being, is in some sort a morning after the night before... — Patrick Hamilton

A handful of the senior officers listening to the speech disapproved of Patton's coarse language. Patton could not care less. He believes that profanity is the language of the soldier, and that to speak to soldiers one must use words that will have the most impact. — Bill O'Reilly

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person. — Vicky Beeching