Tom Barrett Quotes

#1. The planets show what is happening, the signs how it is happening, and the houses where it is happening.

Howard Sasportas

#2. It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.

Tom Barrett

#3. The morning coffee
reminds me of your waking
I stir to find you

Tyler Knott Gregson

#4. The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

Tom Barrett

#5. As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs.

Tom Barrett

#6. It is impossible to feel calm in cities, he believes, because we so rarely hear birdsong there. Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

Jenny Offill

#7. I'm pleased to have the support of working men and women throughout the state of Wisconsin. And I found in the primary I did. Now the key is to get that turnout activated. And we know we can do that. Again, the temperature here is very, very high on both sides of the aisle.

Tom Barrett

#8. I think one of the strengths of Wisconsin's economy is it's diversity - and in making sure that we're doing everything we can to have a state government that's responsive to that and being here and encouraging people to expand their businesses here.

Tom Barrett

#9. I'm very confident that not only will the other candidates who ran for this office support me but all of their supporters will as well. So yes, I'm very confident that I will get their support.

Tom Barrett

#10. I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.

Stieg Larsson

#11. Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

Tom Barrett

#12. Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Candy Lightner

#13. With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow.

Tom Barrett

#14. I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

Tom Barrett

#15. If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

Tom Barrett

#16. The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

Wilma Scott Heide

#17. People expected 'Jennifer's Body' to make so much money. But I was doubtful. The movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America. It's obviously a girl-power movie, but it's also about how scary girls are. Girls can be a nightmare.

Megan Fox

#18. Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

Tom Barrett

#19. I am absolutely blessed and I'm very grateful for where I am today.

Geri Halliwell

#20. Certainly we're going to continue to see those commercials that I call 30-second drive-by shootings. And they're going to have a lot of money to do it. But we're going to combat it.

Tom Barrett

#21. Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe one's whole life in irreversible conflagration.

Paul Russell

#22. I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

Moshe Safdie

#23. India is scared of the competition ... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

Lee Kuan Yew