Barias Quotes

#1. In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave] ... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#2. I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

William Shakespeare

#3. (Useful fact: mortals rarely look up.)

N.K. Jemisin

#4. Loving her is strange and confusing and damn risky. And if I had the chance I'd choose it all over again.

Autumn Doughton

#5. They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.

Tami Hoag

#6. Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.

Pythagoras

#7. You think that it's not magic that keeps you alive? Just 'cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn't make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We're all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic's just a little different from yours, that's all.

Charlaine Harris

#8. You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Kenneth Burke

#9. I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!'

Lev Yilmaz

#10. No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Thomas Hobbes

#11. I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

Mary MacLane

#12. Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.

Liam Neeson

#13. Come on and eat with him. I promise, I won't let him kiss you again.

Suzanne Collins