Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.
Richard Scott Bakker
Quotes to Explore
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian
There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
A. J. Cook
There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
Dana Perino
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
Pat Buckley
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
Nancy Allen
Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
L'Wren Scott
I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
Walter Annenberg
The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.
Loni Love
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the much more livable and durable career where success comes late, and comes slowly, and you ease into it. So by the time it comes, you're ready to deal with it.
Philip Glass
This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.
Richard Scott Bakker
