Dan Barker Quotes

We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.

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• I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • Death
  • Thought

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Writing
  • Best
  • Talent

• One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Done
  • She
  • Bad

• If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Live
  • Age
  • Best

• I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Think
  • Always
  • Spark

• What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Innovation

• Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.

  

  Gail Collins
  • She
  • Think
  • Nice

• Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Long
  • Water

• The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men
  • Free
  • Law

• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Wisdom
  • Product
  • Attempt

• I had a lot of self-confidence.

  

  Bowie Kuhn
  • Confidence

• People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • People
  • Women

• When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Money
  • Food

• The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.

  

  Fritz Haber

• Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

  

  David Guetta
  • Done

• I would use the power of procurement, I would say if you want to do business with the mayor of London, you must pay your staff a London Living Wage.

  

  Sadiq Khan
  • Business
  • Power

• While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • God
  • May
  • Song

• The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Military
  • Enemy
  • Lies

• You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

  

  Steve Irwin
  • Humor
  • Cruel
  • Australian

• Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is a wasted time Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Love

• We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Forever
  • Religion
  • Brother