Susan Barker Quotes

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

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• I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Good
  • True

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Nervous

• Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Sometimes
  • Will
  • Make

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Great
  • Why
  • Always

• The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Mind
  • Strong

• But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Art
  • Scary

• The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Real
  • May
  • Imagination

• If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Bad

• The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Trying

• To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Wish
  • Wisdom

• Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Psychology

• In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Men
  • Women
  • College

• I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.

  

  Jerry Lewis

• I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up.

  

  Berglind Icey
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Army

• After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • Loyalty

• I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Film
  • Balance
  • Beauty

• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • God
  • Dream
  • Day

• My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

  

  Jenna Jameson
  • Courage

• I need someone to eat breakfast with and watch AdventureTime with! Then, do other miscellaneous things that you can't say on Twitter!

  

  Adrian Robinson
  • Say
  • Breakfast
  • Watch

• I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why else would women have arms? Or feet? Or mouths?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Women
  • Why
  • Design

• Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

  

  Susan Barker
  • Truth
  • Versions
  • Perspectives