Barbara Quotes

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!

I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.

Baby, I'm yours until two and two is three.

True, but irrelevant.

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

I think it was 37 years that I did music.

I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.

I see more people all the time feeling something growing from within them to more fully realize their heart's desire, their desire to give more, to be more, to do more.

As a feminine cocreator, having lived through the arc of evolution from 1929 to the present, I offer encouragement and vocational arousal to all!

Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world.

Cultural creatives take a stand for a more spiritualized, personalized, and integrated culture.

Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality

The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.

Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the present crises on planet Earth.

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

Money was the manure of politics.

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.

If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody

...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.

Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.

Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

His masculinity was only too apparent

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.