Barry Lyga Quotes

It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

Barry Lyga

• Goddess
• Good Day
• School Bus

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Goddess

• I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Day
  • Tired

• Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Light
  • Sleep
  • Sun

• When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy them, but now they call this free will. At least the Greeks were being honest.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • God
  • Free

• I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • World
  • Country
  • Children

• It's a big thing in my music to highlight being human - being emotional and powerful, like a goddess.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Music
  • Powerful
  • Emotional

• I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

  

  Amelie Nothomb
  • God
  • Goddess

• At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

  

  Carol P. Christ
  • Goddess

• The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

  

  Carol P. Christ
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Death

• The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Religious
  • Sex
  • Celebrity

• Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Goddess

• Onstage, I channel my inner goddess. Everyday Jillian is definitely more low-key: jeans and a crop top with a sneaker or boot.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Everyday
  • Goddess

• I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Music
  • Deep
  • Connection

• Sharpe's sword was lucky. There was a soldier's goddess and her name was Fate and she had liked the sword Harper made for Sharpe. The Kligenthal was stained with the blood of friends, with the torture of flayed priests, and the beautiful sword contained not luck, but evil.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • She
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• A man could fight bullets and bayonets, even rockets if he understood the weapon, but no man understood the invisible enemies. Sharpe wished he knew how to propitiate Fate, the soldiers' Goddess, but She was a capricious deity, without loyalty.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • She
  • Fate
  • Loyalty

• There was a god or goddess of wind, rain, lightning, thunder, clouds, stars, sun, and of course, the moon goddess, and they all more or less worked under SkyMaker.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • God
  • Sun
  • Moon

• Oprah is just this goddess presiding over so much of American life, and her story is really interesting - the way she made herself, and the ruthlessness it took, and also the fantasizing that it took.

  

  George Packer
  • Life
  • She
  • American

• But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

  

  John Milton
  • Melancholy
  • Goddess
  • Sage

• 18. The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Knowledge

• Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;- The things o'er which thou mournest-are they not playthings all?

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Broken

• First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • People
  • Country
  • Stop

• It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece.

  

  Big Sean
  • Real
  • Remember
  • Mom

• It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Goddess
  • Good Day
  • School Bus