Top 100 Bard Quotes
#1. In the secret island the Druid shall dwell once more, and the Bard, the slave of the harp, utter the speech of the Gods.
Lewis Spence
#2. Quidditch Through the Ages Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them The Tales of Beedle the Bard
J.K. Rowling
#3. I personally believe that I was ... a previous life or something ... a previous reincarnation, a bard of some sort, because most of the things I write about are descriptions of places I've never been to.
Marc Bolan
#4. A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.
Elizabeth Bard
#5. Dammit, Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire." Lila
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#6. I know where you sleep, Bard." She smirked. "Then you know I sleep with knives.
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#7. I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?"
"Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.
Lloyd Alexander
#8. My inner control freak had taken the day off ... I had descended from the mountain of the perfect, into the valley of the possible, and was now on the happy shaded trail, dappled with sunlight, of the present. It was the most wonderful walk of my life.
Elizabeth Bard
#10. I always hated...all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.
Jonathan Renshaw
#11. I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, on who is half hacker, half bard.
Janet H. Murray
#12. Lila Bard knew in her bones that she was meant to be a pirate.
Victoria Schwab
#13. I absolutely knew that I wanted to play role-playing games when I saw a friend of mine playing 'Bard's Tale 2' on his Commodore 64.
Chris Avellone
#14. I am what I am," Ty said. "And what is that?" Ariane asked. "A bartender. Always happy to make new acquaintances." He nodded at Bard. "Or to provide guests with drinks. Anyone thirsty?
Neal Stephenson
#15. Don't get yourself killed."
"I'll do my best," said Kell, and then he was going.
"And come back," added Rhy.
Kell paused. "Don't worry," he said. "I will. Once I've seen it."
"Seen what?" asked Rhy.
Kell smiled. "Everything.
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#16. Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.
Ivan Stoikov
#17. In the three months since I'd moved to Paris, I hadn't been to a single party. I was eager to get dressed up and go somewhere, dying to talk to somebody other than the guy who sold me my zucchini.
Elizabeth Bard
#18. Bards don't believe in goodbyes - we know that the roads we walk are winding, and we generally tend to come back to people and places we've known and been before, and often at just the right time." I smiled. "We'll meet again.
Sean Gibson
#19. Delilah Bard had a way of finding trouble. She'd always thought it was better than letting trouble find her, but floating in the ocean in a two-person skiff with no oars, no view of land, and no real resources save the ropes binding her wrists, she was beginning to reconsider. The
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#21. In Paris the past is always with you: you look at it, walk over it, sit on it.
Elizabeth Bard
#22. J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.
Philip Zaleski
#23. And what exactly is it that you do?"
"I do pretty much what the name implies. I shoot trouble.
Bard Constantine
#24. There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.
Michael Ende
#25. O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")
W.B.Yeats
#26. Ah me! what hand can pencil guide, or pen, To follow half on which the eye dilates Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken Than those whereof such things the bard relates, Who to the awe-struck world unlocked Elysium's gates?
George Gordon Byron
#27. By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!"
"There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy.
"Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can.
Lloyd Alexander
#28. I can't say I'm unhappy about it,' added the bard, 'I get along well enough with mice, and I've always been found of birds, but when you put the two together I'd just as soon avoid them.
Lloyd Alexander
#29. They weren't tears of sadness or even tears of joy. I was just overflowing. Like so many things since I'd been here, I didn't yet understand it, but I felt it.
Elizabeth Bard
#30. In fact, I was just looking for news about you. Where have you been hiding?" "In your exercise room. I've been watching your bard-in-a-box and learning about your world.
Bryan Fields
#31. an arsenal of serious tools that needed to be sworn at to work properly.
C. Bard Cole
#32. Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling.
Robertson Davies
#33. He was still open to the magic of this place. I didn't know a lot of people who were open to magic at all.
Elizabeth Bard
#34. Lila Bard lived by a simple rule: if a thing was worth having, it was worth taking.
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#35. I too am a poet who has found some favour with the Muse. I too have written songs. I too have heard the shepherds call me bard. But I take it from them with a grain of salt: I have the feeling that I cannot yet compare with Varius or Cinna, but cackle like a goose among melodious swans.
Virgil
#36. She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe it wasn't that simple. Maybe it wasn't a matter of what she didn't have, of what she wasn't, but what she was.
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#37. It was safe to assume he'd not only read the play but then re-read it, cross-referenced the annotations, and probably joined an online chat group called Buds of the Bard or something equally nerdy
Simon Holt
#38. That's the real reason why French women don't get fat: every day they make "petites" decisions that keep the larger weight loss struggle from ever having to begin.
Elizabeth Bard
#39. Come gather 'round hardy men of the steppes and listen to my tale of heroes bold and friendships fast and the Tyrant of Icenwind Dale of a band of friends by trick or by deed bred legends for the bard the baneful pride of the one poor wretch and the horror of the Crystal Shard.
R.A. Salvatore
#40. Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. Walking away had been easy.
Not looking back was harder.
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#42. The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.
Louis C.K.
#43. A parallel to this system of punishment is the trauma caused by enforced unemployment in capitalist society. Add to this an inability for the unemployed to find any imaginable alternative occupation, and the extent of the effects of network exclusion becomes clear.
Alexander Bard
#44. Delilah Bard - always a thief, recently a magician, and one day, hopefully, a pirate - was running as fast as she could. Hold
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#45. The woman's face was like a stone tablet, as if the president of the chess club had wandered over to the Goth corner of the schoolyard and asked to touch a tongue piercing.
Elizabeth Bard
#46. His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.
Juliet Marillier
#47. And I myself a Catholic will be,
So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee.
Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow
On us, the Poets militant below.
Abraham Cowley
#48. The contemporary Matthew Paris wrote that, 'foul as it is, hell itself is defiled by the foulness of King John'. A bard sang that 'no man may ever trust him, for his heart is soft and cowardly'. Yet this evil was catalyst for a greater good, Magna Carta.
Simon Jenkins
#49. Great is the art,
Great be the manners, of the bard.
He shall not his brain encumber
With the coil of rhythm and number;
But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
He shall aye climb
For his rhyme.
"Pass in, pass in," the angels say
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#50. Everybody who meddles with Shakespeare biography readily accepts that the Bard was unfaithful to his wife and excuses him for it, but infidelity on the part of his wife is sufficient to justify estrangement.
Germaine Greer
#51. Names are important," she said, twirling the cord. "Mine is Ojka, and I have orders to keep you out." Beyond the doors, Kell let out a scream of frustration, a sob of pain. "My name is Lila Bard," she answered, drawing her favorite knife, "and I don't give a damn." Ojka
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#52. The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.
Henry David Thoreau
#53. I consider Anne of Green Gables to be a mentor, Jane Austen to be a writing hero, and the Bard a fellow name freak like myself.
Lorilee Craker
#54. It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the cracks, slid past the guard, and you didn't know how deep they were buried until they were gone and you were bleeding on the floor.
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#55. One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.
Ivan Stoikov
#56. The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order - the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.
Min Jin Lee
#57. No better way to avoid making a decision than burying yourself in a big fat book. (p. 105).
Elizabeth Bard
#58. Such is the fate of simple Bard,
On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
Robert Burns
#59. There's no remedy for a spat between friends like visiting flaming, whirling death upon your enemies.
Bard Bloom
#60. I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I now merely admire, And my heart is as grey as my head.
William Shakespeare
#61. The first game I actually bought myself with my own money was 'The Bard's Tale.'
Markus Persson
#62. I told you, Hell-Bard. Everyone lies. It's in the way we banter with our friends. It's in the mundane greetings we give passersby. It's in the most meaningless things we do every single moment of every single day. Hundreds upon thousands of tiny, inconsequential lies.
Susan Dennard
#64. Are you as famous in your world as Kell is here?"
Lila thought of the wanted posters lining her London. "Not for the same reasons.
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#65. A man of your valor deserves not another breath.
Craig R. Key
#67. To acknowledge the need of a new world-view would undermine the whole of their activity, and not many thinkers were willing to pay that price. Particularly not in a society where social exclusion meant rapid transportation to the proudest invention of the humanist sciences: the mental hospital.
Alexander Bard
#68. The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain.
Robert Blair
#69. I was living "every girl's" dream. But I had yet to find my own passion, my personal project, the thing that would help make Paris mine.
Elizabeth Bard
#70. Bard eyed him like he was manure on her shoes at the same time she did things, like sharpen a wooden stake, something she knew didn't work on him, but that was not her point, even if she was making one.
Kristen Ashley
#71. A bard must know history so she does not repeat it. She tells the tales but is never part of them. She watches but remains above what she sees. She inspires passions in others and rules her own.
David Gaider
#72. me; and which, as they have always been in the world, and perhaps reappear to every bard, may be both history and prophecy. 'The foundations
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
Philip James Bailey
#74. A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an innocent nincompoop.
J.K. Rowling
#75. I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
P.J. Harvey
#76. We're all here for a reason, Bard. Some reasons are just bigger than others.
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#77. I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself."
"I apologize for shooting you in the leg." said Lila. "I was myself entirely.
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#78. I almost never let reality get in the way of a good story.
Elizabeth Bard
#79. We've been here dozen of times since we met, but this precious month before the baby is born feels like a last first date. There's a different kind of romance beginning. We will never again be entirely alone in the world
Elizabeth Bard
#80. Raise the bar for yourself, increase, improve and inspire others to do same. Never miss the success of each day!
Israelmore Ayivor
#83. I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.
Charlaine Harris
#85. Home can be something as vast as a country, as holy as a temple, or as simple as a cake.
Elizabeth Bard
#86. With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro's true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse.
Jeremy Robert Johnson
#87. Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear ... from my future Kids' Funny Business.
Ivan Stoikov
#88. We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.
Gerald Bard Tjoflat
#89. Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library
Evan Meekins
#90. Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to nature, but he also created that mirror: so the image he created is the very one we hold ourselves up to.
Jess Winfield
#91. No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.
Charlaine Harris
#92. Miss Hermione Jean Granger, I leave my copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in the hope that she will find it entertaining and instructive.
J.K. Rowling
#93. Polite fictions are very important for dragons.
Bard Bloom
#94. However close you can be to a vegan diet and further from the mean American diet, the better you are for the planet." quoted by Gidon Eshel (Bard College geographer)
James McWilliams
#95. There are many shadows in the night.
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#96. My feet hurt, Hell-Bard."
"Good for you."
"My wrists hurt too."
"Fascinating."
... "You're a bastard.
Susan Dennard
#97. I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.
Gia Coppola
#98. Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
Ian Doescher
#99. The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
Hesiod
#100. The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale.
Lawren Leo
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