Barbone Street Quotes

#1. Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

James Joyce

#4. I always thought they were a God-send; and they were ... But then again, so was the Great Flood.

Steve Maraboli

#5. Life in the Islamic Republic was as capricious as the month of April, when short periods of sunshine will suddenly give way to showers and storms.

Azar Nafisi

#6. She's one of those who goes all gooey over small furry animals. Not that it stops her eating them

Simon Bestwick

#7. At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Robert Farrar Capon

#8. The only bowl Rutgers is going to is the one I just got off of.

Glenn Foley

#9. I've driven just about every kind of car there is.

Mario Andretti

#10. The psychological theories that inform day-to-day business practices are comprised mostly of folk-psychology, fads, and myths.

Paul Gibbons

#11. There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

George Borrow

#12. Despite support from a majority of Americans, a majority of the House of Representatives, and a majority of the Senate, Keystone XL is stuck - stalled by special-interest politics.

Kevin McCarthy

#13. Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Susan Sontag