Kingsbery Baris Quotes

#1. In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

Roger Corman

#2. Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.

Mike Tyson

#3. Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

Charles Handy

#4. I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

April Winchell

#5. The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

H.L. Mencken

#6. It seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he 'relocated' an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel.

Nalini Singh

#7. Out. The smile that Lord Janos Slynt smiled then had all the sweetness of rancid butter. Until Jon said, "Edd, fetch me a block," and unsheathed Longclaw.

George R R Martin

#8. Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence.

James Richardson

#9. In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#10. He descends upon the chosen as upon the Lord in Jordan, and bears witness to their sonship by working in them a filial spirit by which they cry Abba, Father.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

George Ellwanger

#12. And when he kisses me it feels a bit like fear and tastes a bit like tears, but it's as bright and sweet as sherbet, and I decide to call it joy.

Alexis Hall

#13. Anyone who likes cats or dogs is a fool.

Gilles Deleuze

#14. Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

John Updike