Binnie Quotes

#1. Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie.
"You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him.
"Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.

Connie Willis

#2. A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.

Binnie Kirshenbaum

#3. I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

Phillip Phillips

#4. Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Sydney Smith

#5. He was so sad he didn't even know it. He was convinced if he could just make meaning, he would have meaning. Not knowing meaning came from the outside.

Noah Cicero

#6. Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.

Imogen Binnie

#7. I wake up every morning and thank God I live in a country where all of this is possible. Where you have the Yankee ingenuity to roll up your sleeves, get a band of people who believe in something and go for it and make it happen. It doesn't happen anywhere else.

Brian Binnie

#8. Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

August Bier

#9. Good work last night, whiskey, too bad you can't make sleep as restful as you make it deep.

Imogen Binnie

#10. Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on the Mississippi
Don Quixote swept admiration for medieval chivalry-silliness out of existence. Ivanhoe restored it. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

#11. If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

Epictetus

#12. I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.

Binnie Kirshenbaum

#13. It's all about perseverance. I just had this attitude ... where failure was just not an option.

Brian Binnie

#14. James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her.

Imogen Binnie

#15. Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

Aesop

#16. If you will only pause, as you hurry through your days, take a minute to look at passersby, beyond cursory skin-deep analysis, all the way into their eyes, what beauty you might find woven from the life threads there.

Ellen Hopkins

#17. Because shaving and putting on a bunch of foundation every day are emotionally exhausting reminders of being trans, she gets a step removed from them by monologuing like she's explaining them to someone.

Imogen Binnie

#18. So basically, I'm like, who the fuck are you Maria Griffiths? A fucking idiot, is who.

Imogen Binnie

#19. Business is full of complexities. That's what makes it so interesting. Anyone who thinks it's boring hasn't given it much thought.

Donald Trump

#20. The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

Binnie Kirshenbaum

#21. I went to a Radiohead concert with Mr. Aaron Paul and became instantly hip. He's a great tweeter and took a photograph of the two of us. He said, 'Man, look at this! We've already got 800 hits in five minutes!' So this old dog became hip.

Pierce Brosnan

#22. The American Dream is about freedom.

Rick Mears

#23. Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

John C. Maxwell

#24. Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.

Binnie Kirshenbaum

#25. Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs.

Imogen Binnie

#26. We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

Gloria Steinem

#27. I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

Jane Campion