Barry S. Strauss Quotes

In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.

Barry S. Strauss

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• Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Done
  • Doing
  • Student

• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

  O. Henry
  • Existence
  • Conversation
  • Few

• I came when I was in high school as part of a student exchange program with the Jewish Community Center in New Jersey, to Ramat Eliyahu. You come and volunteer for five weeks at a day camp. I was a teenager - I couldn't really appreciate it as much, and now I come back as an adult and I can really get the flavor of the city, and I love it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Appreciate
  • Student

• To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • People
  • Free
  • Existence

• I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Kind

• Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Law
  • Judge
  • Student

• I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Balance

• Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Existence
  • Possible

• A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Morning
  • Horse
  • Rose

• Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him. It was not exasperation with Chooka. It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Up
  • Rose

• The red thought rose up inside Blaine’s brain: Why not kill him now?For the killing would come easy. He was an easy man to hate. Not on principle alone, but personally, clear down to his guts.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hate

• Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Rose

• John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Period
  • Rose
  • Stock

• I don't want to say this in a lame way, but D. Rose is one of my heroes. His whole story and background and what he's done for communities in Chicago is super inspiring.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Done
  • Chicago
  • Rose

• We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

  

  Artur Davis
  • Words
  • Party
  • Suffering

• I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • People
  • Up
  • Rose

• I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • English
  • Rose

• My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Art
  • Wife
  • Film

• The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

  

  William Blake
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Rose

• His constant fight is with the Nafs self-interest, the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Man
  • Enemy
  • Fight

• I'm dealing with soft targets, and it's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Coffee

• Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • See
  • Deceiving

• In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Existence
  • Rose
  • Student