Vantine Barrett Quotes

#1. I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.

Karen Russell

#2. Finding faults is for those with tired minds.

Rumi

#3. Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

Aristotle.

#4. I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.

Eugene Mirman

#5. I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

Masi Oka

#6. There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

Michael Owen

#7. This idealization of clinical perfection prevents us from being in the moment. It stops us from appreciating our experience as beautiful despite the "flaws" because, deep down, we are so ashamed of ourselves for not living up to these expectations of perfection that we can barely breathe. In

Robin Elizabeth

#8. Oh, the things we discover and the things we learn, much too late. Worse are the secrets that are not secrets, the sorrows we live with but do not admit to one another.

Robin Hobb

#9. We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.

Hjalmar Branting

#10. If you travel to the States ... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

Alexei Sayle