Barrens Chat Quotes

#1. Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.

Joel Salatin

#2. I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

Warren Buffett

#3. I know people will say that it's because of the accident that I came back to church-well, they're right. I'm not too proud to know when a problem is bigger than I am.

Sharon M. Draper

#4. It always amazed me how little he understood what I was feeling. It meant, among other things, that my understanding of him probably wasn't much better.

Richard Russo

#5. You can't take their type too seriously; they will be all steamed up over an idea today, but by tomorrow will have dropped it for some other wild notion.

W.J. King

#6. I think as an actor ... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.

Michael Mando

#7. I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

Vanna White

#8. I couldn't find a way to fly to you so I walked every step in this stone.

Ally Condie

#9. How could looking into a face of such unparalleled beauty bring about such unprecedented pain?

Fawn Bonning

#10. Her lips was hot, like the ridge of a cooking dish.

Esi Edugyan

#11. He that once deceives is ever suspected.

George Herbert

#12. [A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

Vincent De Paul

#13. A worthy old scholar, criticising the king's penmanship, pointed out a fault. He, smiling, erased the word, but when the critic was gone, began to restore it, remarking that it was right, but it was better to spoil paper than the self-confidence of an old man.

Flora Annie Steel

#14. Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Alain De Botton