Barry Privett Quotes

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

Barry Privett

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• I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fight

• There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Goodness
  • Which

• I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Part

• In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Politics
  • Stupidity

• People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Pressure
  • Autonomous

• The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • Want
  • Talk

• The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Power
  • Control
  • Government

• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Everything

• It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Know
  • Me
  • Judge

• I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• After I took up etchings c. 1915, my paintings seemed to crystallize.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Up

• If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Long

• Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

  

  Dave Parnas

• I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

  

  Charlene Tilton
  • Pain
  • Cold
  • Accomplishment

• My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.

  

  Donna Langley
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Beach

• We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

  

  Ariel Garten
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Stress

• Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

  

  Polykarp Kusch
  • Time
  • Science

• The host of 'Face The Nation,' Bob Schieffer, was an important figure in my childhood years. Every Sunday in the fall, he occupied my family's time after church and before the NFL pregame shows.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Done
  • May
  • Dream

• Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Together
  • Confused
  • Towns

• You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Women
  • Smart
  • Dumb

• With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

  

  Barry Privett
  • Pain
  • Childhood
  • Adult