Barnburner Alfred Quotes

#1. How does one get help when they have no money~ or how does one get money when they have no help?

Nina Montgomery

#2. Special emotions that arise only in a dark corner unknown to other people, where the real and the unreal secretly mingle.

Haruki Murakami

#3. I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.

Peter Greenaway

#4. A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.

P.L. Travers

#5. I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.

Tom Rachman

#6. Any final requests? This is going to be quick."
"Yes, actually I'd like you to change your mind."
"Not about to happen.

Sabrina Benulis

#7. No, the single most humiliating part of the whole fucking humiliating exercise in abject humiliation was that somewhere between then and now, Grace had actually thought Vaughn was a nice guy,

Sarra Manning

#8. Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

Paula Abdul

#9. That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Marilynne Robinson

#10. Can you have a seance to summon the ghost of a dead zombie?

Dana Gould

#11. The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

Oliver Goldsmith

#12. Beauty is not a hoax ... Come on, I say to the creek, surprise me; and it does, with each new drop. Beauty is real. I would never deny it; the appalling thing is that I forget it (271).

Annie Dillard

#13. At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.

A-Trak

#14. People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

Robert Breault