Donald Barthelme Quotes

BILL: … We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

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• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
  • Love
  • Difficult

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

  Hannah More
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Law
  • Community
  • Policy

• I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Like
  • Now
  • Legs

• I wasn't a ladies' man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Man
  • Ladies

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Experience
  • America
  • Black

• They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Thought
  • Office
  • Box

• As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sounds

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Love
  • Running
  • Speak

• The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Stubborn
  • Marked

• It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Real
  • America
  • Always

• In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Day
  • Should
  • University

• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• Where dance is, there is the devil.

  

  John Chrysostom
  • Dance
  • Devil

• The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer.

  

  Arthur Tappan Pierson
  • True
  • Prayer
  • Word Of God

• BILL: … We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

  

  Donald Barthelme
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