Barbara Jane Reyes Quotes

We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.

Barbara Jane Reyes

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• I think it's really important to give back and show other people that you care.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • People
  • Important
  • Care

• At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Time
  • Me
  • Day

• I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Moving
  • Wit
  • Moving On

• The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Real
  • Beauty
  • Italian

• I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Good
  • Long
  • Man

• Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Up
  • Success
  • Giving

• Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Government
  • Gun

• Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Hopeless

• I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career. Whatever I am today is due to the values my mother instilled in me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Better
  • Nothing
  • Dancers

• The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Couple
  • Legal

• Faith with proof is no faith at all.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Faith
  • Proof

• Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese Space Program, studied in the United States, and he was a protégé of Theodore Von Carmen's at Cal Tech and helped start the jet propulsion laboratory there, and then he got caught up in the anti-communism wave and was accused of being a spy and was actually deported back to China where he built from nothing, their entire missile and space program. So, in a way, in a very real way, the United States in trying to protect so-called protect our secrets and throwing this guy out of the country, we helped seed and start the Chinese missile program.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Country
  • Real

• But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Hope
  • Beautiful
  • Moments

• The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • May
  • Freedom

• Lots of people still live with fears about anything. It can be lots of different things. One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • People
  • Different
  • Issues

• I have fled my country and gone to the heather.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Country
  • Fled
  • Heather

• Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken Italian which train we are supposed to board at the Venice railway station is far from useless. Indeed, it is better to do that than to remain uncertain and silent and end up back in Budapest rather than in Milan.

  

  Kató Lomb
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Language

• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  

  Burleigh Grimes
  • Kids
  • Guy
  • Kind

• My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been access to the poorest and most destitute, forgotten, and suffering people on Earth. It's not possible for a President to actually know them.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • Life
  • Earth

• We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.

  

  Barbara Jane Reyes
  • Hardest
  • Guess