The Magic Barrel Quotes

#1. It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.

Deborah Eisenberg

#2. In a young child's mind, parents probably condone what's on the television, just like they choose what's in the refrigerator or on the stove. That's why we who make television for children must be especially careful.

Fred Rogers

#3. It's important to have your own space. I've never trusted people who do everything together. I call them "Kool-Aid Couples," because it's like they drank the same Kool-Aid and it's drugged them into constantly gazing into each other's eyes.

Denis Leary

#4. The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

Jim Rohn

#5. Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us."
Roark: "But I don't think of you.

Ayn Rand

#6. Anyone who accepts Jesus into his heart and believes Him always becomes great

Sunday Adelaja

#7. He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

Mark Twain

#8. Don't you know the eyes are the windows to the soul?" "Maybe I don't want anyone to have a window into mine.

Kami Garcia

#9. I'm getting grumpier all the time.

Ned Beatty

#10. Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.
The same applies when you are stupid.

Ricky Gervais

#12. You can turn your weaknesses into strengths.

Ken Petti

#13. I went from barrel to barrel. It was magic. Why hadn't someone told me? With this, life was great, a man was perfect, nothing could touch him.

Charles Bukowski

#14. Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

Thomas J. Watson Jr.

#15. Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

Louisa May Alcott

#16. It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world. She thought those sounds were magic.

Stieg Larsson

#17. Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

Mary Doria Russell

#18. Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.

Johannes Kepler