Barbara Havers Quotes

#1. There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-

Kate Chopin

#2. Your soulmate can also be found in a friendship

Steven Aitchison

#3. Joblessness gives you access to a vast number of resources

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Youthful dreams are precious things. They ought not to be dashed as foolish and unrealistic just because they are young dreams. Innocence ought not to be destroyed from any callous conviction that a realistic sort of cynicism is better.

Mary Balogh

#5. When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

Anton Chekhov

#6. The one place you don't want to wear shorts is any major awards show. You can wear them to the Teen Choice or Kids' Choice awards, but not the Oscars or the Emmys.

Peter Som

#7. My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

Gordon Bell

#8. The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#9. My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

Nicholas Negroponte

#10. Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.

Elizabeth George

#11. Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

Brandon Cox