Carol Ross Barney Quotes

I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

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• Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Listen

• If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • May
  • Career
  • Know

• With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • You
  • Expect
  • Ladder

• My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • People
  • Mother
  • Education

• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Man
  • Thoroughly
  • Godless

• Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Why
  • Man
  • Him

• It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Bad

• The news team, and Hamin, seemed well pleased. 'You should have been an actor, Jernau Gurgeh,' Hamin told him. Gurgeh assumed this was intended as a compliment.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Team

• 55: LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Value

• Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's of war,The voice of one who went before.But most of all the mirror's gaze,which counts us out our numbered days.

  

  Clive Barker
  • War
  • Dog
  • Mirror

• Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • World
  • Success
  • Worry

• The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Good
  • Education
  • Wife

• The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • World
  • Patience

• My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

  

  Donal Logue
  • She
  • Mom
  • Tennis

• Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Power

• I couldn't cook French food as well as a French chef, or Italian like an Italian cook. But I also came to understand none of them could cook Brazilian food as well as me.

  

  Alex Atala
  • Food
  • Understand
  • Cook

• Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • Deep
  • Profound

• Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and thoughtful - so much so that he will request a moment to consider a question, and turn it around in his head to get the shape and weight of it, before answering, occasionally with an excited rush of words in response.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Words
  • Question
  • Thoughtful

• I'd like everyone to imagine a world where you get a job as Tom, and then the next day you're Tina. Imagine you're in the world where you love what you do, but people say that you can't be who you are.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • World
  • Imagine

• I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

  

  Carol Ross Barney
  • World
  • Stuff