Bill Barich Quotes

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

Bill Barich

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• I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Future
  • Boring

• Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • History
  • Black

• We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Light
  • Fence
  • Phone

• Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Money
  • Single
  • Problems

• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Religion

• In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Work
  • Win
  • Hard Work

• It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Person

• Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Passion
  • Masculine
  • Epic

• It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • Good
  • Myself

• Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Dad

• The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Revelation
  • Final

• The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • World
  • Art

• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.

  

  Alfred Whitney Griswold
  • Good
  • Done
  • Truth

• We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Revolution

• The hardest part for me is to finish a track. I start new projects all the time.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Time

• I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Time
  • Choices

• Everything I have done in the private sector has been through an ethics review point by point by point, and I have been given a clean bill of health by Ethics from the day I walked in the door, including my involvement with Innate Immunotherapeutics and my position on the board.

  

  Chris Collins
  • Done
  • Health
  • Door

• Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Compulsion
  • Imposition

• Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Help
  • Past
  • Challenge

• It was a lot of pressure, but I loved working with Tim and I loved working with Adrian.

  

  Elizabeth Pena

• I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don't tend to be driven by work ambitions.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

  

  Bill Barich
  • Life
  • Silence
  • Fault