Barry Malzberg Quotes

There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.

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• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Spring

• No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I can't hold a grudge anyway.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Hold
  • Grudge
  • Anyway

• It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Government
  • Own
  • Oil

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • Look
  • See

• The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Party
  • Single

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• Excellent in every way around the glens The two skilful ones make inquiries

  

  Taliesin

• I'm not attacking anyone. I have no animosity towards Lana, I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Perspective

• Sweet darlin’, come hold me, Just a little bit longer now

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Sweet

• Die nächste Flut verwischt den Weg im Watt, und alles wird auf allen Seiten gleich; die kleine Insel draußen aber hat die Augen zu; verwirrend kreist der Deichum ihre Wohner, die in einem Schlaf geboren werden, drin sie viele Welten verwechseln schweigend, denn sie reden selten, und jeder Satz ist wie ein Epitaph

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Die

• I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.

  

  Larry Wall
  • World
  • Long

• Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Country
  • Power
  • Fool

• Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• But make no mistake. My counterpart is capable of a great deal of ruthlessness in pursuit of a just cause. He believes he has right on his side. And men who think they have right on their side are always the most dangerous sort.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Great
  • Men
  • Mistake

• It is true that poems and stories generally have only a single name attached to them where authorship is concerned but in many ways they are born of much more than any single individual. They evolve out of meetings of minds, the collective heartbeats of communities, and the shared journeys of similar souls.

  

  Aberjhani
  • True
  • Single

• Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Man
  • Words
  • Universe

• The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.

  

  Jim Piddock
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Napoleon

• Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul, - this makes life worth living.

  

  James Freeman Clarke
  • Life
  • Great
  • Power

• Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Life
  • Remember

• There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.

  

  Barry Malzberg
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Concise