Amelia Barr Quotes
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr
Quotes to Explore
'...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'
Arthur Balfour
Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
Anthony Kennedy
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Arthur Miller
A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller
I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
Kurt Braunohler
My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.
Chelsea Handler
All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
Karen Joy Fowler
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
Dean Koontz
I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.
Banksy
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Renata Adler
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr
