Barraca Central Quotes

#1. My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

Howard Gardner

#2. If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated]

Justinian I

#3. Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.

Homer

#4. I never know which Starr I should be. I can use some slang, but not too much slang, some attitude, but not too much attitude, so I'm not a "sassy black girl." I have to watch what I say and how I say it, but I can't sound "white." Shit

Angie Thomas

#5. The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

Francis Crick

#6. Want to go to West Virginia and risk life and limb with me?"
Zane smirked and gave a single nod. "Sounds like fun.

Abigail Roux

#7. It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

Pablo Picasso

#8. You can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat.

Kelly Cutrone

#9. Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought they have had, each person they have known - these things are still at work in them; nothing's finished.
("The Graveyard Reader")

Theodore Sturgeon

#10. Try saying hello to someone who wouldn't expect you to - today would be good.

John Avery