Beckons Def Quotes

#1. I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

Helena Bonham Carter

#2. Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

Gene Logsdon

#3. There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

Joe Bob Briggs

#4. I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

Campbell Newman

#5. There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.

William Damon

#6. My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

Larry Bird

#7. Please . . ." "Now let go so you can watch my mouth." "Will," she said, voice shaking. "Yeah?" "After this? Please don't break me.

Christina Lauren

#8. I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.

Bethany Cosentino

#9. Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as "superconsumers," able to carry consumer demand all on their own.

Naomi Klein

#10. Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.

Vernon Howard