Demetra Barr Quotes

#1. We are all self made although it's usually only the successful that tell you so.

Robert Stone

#2. Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

James Tiptree Jr.

#3. It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

Henri Poincare

#4. I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Jerzy Kosinski

#5. A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

Jason Ellis

#6. People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs.

Nick Hanauer

#7. Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#8. For an instant he was offended, but immediately knew he could not be offended with her because she was himself.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

Malorie Blackman

#10. There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a record when people are paying attention, because that's when it has the best chance of being heard.

Andrew McMahon

#11. Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

Zbigniew Herbert

#12. Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

Arthur Godfrey

#13. There is a ripple effect to the gospel that's inevitable. There's a ripple effect to true grace. It doesn't lead us to only sit and contemplate what hap- pened to us. It leads us to proclaim what's happened to us - and what can happen to anybody and everybody on the planet.

Louie Giglio