Barrelfuls Quotes

#1. But think of the hearts of these whales, beating warm against the sea, day and night, through dark and light, on and on for centuries; how the red blood must rush and gurgle in and out, bucketfuls, barrelfuls at a beat!

John Muir

#2. When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997.

Noreena Hertz

#3. My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.

Kevin Allen

#4. Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

Penn Jillette

#5. A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

William Graham Sumner

#6. But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

William Labov

#7. I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

Beth Kephart

#9. Now don't you give me any of that talk about becoming overly protective and fussy in my old age. I have every right to show a little concern now and then.

Jaye L. Knight

#10. The subject under discussion, economics, purports to be a science. It

John Lanchester

#11. Persecution, like fire, burns up the weak elements (wood and hay) but actually purifies the strong ones (silver and gold). It

Jefferson Bethke

#12. Appreciation is the best currency to encourage someone do something for humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Nature vs. Nurture? The Creator created us and knew us before we were in the womb, and He continues to create us throughout our lives.

Gina Turner

#14. I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago.

Steffi Graf

#15. In the digital space, attention is a currency. We earn it. We spend it

Brian Solis

#16. I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.

Matthew Rhys