Thomas Kirkbride Quotes

#1. There is no reason why an individual, who has the misfortune to become insane, should, on that account, be deprived of any comfort or even luxury...

Thomas Story Kirkbride

#2. The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

Mary Parker Follett

#3. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#5. Do not make me into that man of hatred for whom I feel only hatred.

Aime Cesaire

#6. She kissed her like she'd been stranded on an island, notching each stranded day onto a fallen coconut, slowly losing her mind. She filled Michelle like weather, worked her mouth like a cherry stem being tongued into a knot.

Michelle Tea

#7. When being distracted by a sideshow, one should wonder what is happening in the big tent.

Deon Potgieter

#8. We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

David Mamet

#9. People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

David Byrne

#10. When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

Logan Lerman

#11. How could you deal with a creature as devious as woman.

Christopher Moore

#12. He imagined his past gone, along with his future. Death was the understanding of the immediate present: that there is finally nothing else.

Anne Rice