Bruce Barton Quotes

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

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• I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Great
  • School
  • College

• To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Care

• The world is a very abnormal place.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Place
  • Very

• I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Think
  • Direction

• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• If you give a party, you better give it right.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • You
  • Party
  • Better

• I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Story
  • Old
  • Piano

• I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Novelist

• Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • God
  • Country
  • Goal

• Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Born

• You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Kids
  • Culture
  • Values

• He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • God
  • May
  • Happy

• Circumretit enim vis atque iniuria quemque,atque, unde exortast, at eum plerumque revertit.

  

  Lucretius

• The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Stop

• It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Pain

• We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived; and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

  

  Clive Barker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Past

• What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Black
  • Eyes

• I just want to get back to the point where America has the best of everything.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • America

• Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Same
  • Behavior
  • Frontier

• When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Teacher

• And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.

  

  Kevin Williamson
  • Beautiful
  • Decision
  • Beginning

• I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.

  

  Bill Simmons
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Selfish

• If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

  

  Bruce Barton