Baniak Na Quotes

#1. I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar,' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a splurge.'
It crossed my mind that the world's most efficient psychological evaluation would have just one question: Define splurge.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. In an ideal world, the time English speakers devote to steeling themselves against, and complaining about, things like Billy and me, singular they, and impact as a verb would be better spent attending to genuine matters of graceful oral and written expression.

John McWhorter

#3. The world is a peaceful place.
We make it hateful by forgetting our grace.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

William Ames

#5. I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

Elisha Cuthbert

#6. I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

Leo Buscaglia

#7. For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use.

Philip Kitcher

#8. When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

Charles Churchill

#9. I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

Len Cariou

#10. - Why you?
- ( ... ) I'm the best.
- Modest of you.
- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

Paul Hoffman