Barnstone Steps Quotes

#1. The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

Oliver Cromwell

#3. And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.

Karl Marlantes

#4. (Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.

Jean Dubuffet

#5. It is a very important film, Life And Nothing More, in that what was filmed was inspired by a journey I had made just three days after an earthquake. And I speak not only of the film itself but also of the experience of being in that place, where only three days before 50,000 people had died.

Abbas Kiarostami

#6. What's up with all these guys not realizing they're bisexual? Here's the clue, buddy, when you're around another dude and you get a hard-on, you might be bi.

Sophie Oak

#7. Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

Louise Hay

#8. I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.

Aaron Douglas

#9. After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.

Darynda Jones