John Barton Quotes

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

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• People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Many
  • Features
  • Borderline

• We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Simple
  • Impact
  • Others

• When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Future
  • Hair

• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Important
  • Age
  • Society

• Peace is its own reward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Peace
  • Own
  • Reward

• The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Gold
  • Devil
  • Mud

• Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Big

• There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Form
  • Discrimination
  • Favor

• There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Culture
  • Fashion

• I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Learn
  • Gun

• Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and agree to touch or feel it. Breathing out, offer space and care to whatever's there. If there's blocking to touching it, emphasize the in-breath and stay embodied.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Care

• Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Money
  • Art
  • Filmmaking

• I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Man

• Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • House
  • Politics
  • Secrets

• Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Night

• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Hate
  • Seek

• You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Failure

• We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

  

  Bill Murray
  • World
  • Americans
  • Forefathers

• The real scares on CNN, etc. and the scares in a movie, like 'The Purge,' are totally different. One of the ways you can tell when someone, whether it's a film maker or executive or producer, wants to make a scary movie but doesn't understand that distinction is they'll want to recreate too much of what's on TV.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Different
  • Real
  • Movie

• I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.

  

  Kurt Andersen
  • Up

• A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

  

  John Barton