Baechler Houser Quotes

#1. The shock of recognition is a moment of excitement that shakes the soul. It may be hard to describe, but like other forms of love, you will know it when you feel it.

Stephen Koch

#2. I wonder why some people seem to be born knowing what they want to do with their lives and others - mostly me - have no idea.

Kasie West

#3. When I am talking about "It Takes a Village", I'm obviously not talking just about or even primarily about geographical villages any longer, but about the network of relationships and values that do connect us and binds us together.

Hillary Clinton

#4. She'd love to go over him with a fine-toothed comb. Rummage around in him. Turn him upside down. Empty him out.

Margaret Atwood

#5. I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.

Jon Krakauer

#6. We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

Peter Greenaway

#7. Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#8. I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

Lord Byron

#9. You are your own hero. Do not wait for someone to save you, rescue you or tell you that you are ok. Be the hero of your own story and never, ever let them make you the victim.

John Goode

#10. My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

Kate Bush

#11. A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#12. Damsel in distress," she muttered, her mother's favorite cuss. Regular cursing made some people look down on a person, but imaginative cursing made a person feel better and those around smile.

Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

#13. I cry to let everything out

Laurie Halse Anderson