Dan Barker Quotes
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
Quotes to Explore
-
We sit and read the paper in conjunction with having a little breakfast. Usually fruit salad, or I make myself a smoothie with rice milk, coconut water and yogurt.
-
I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
-
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
-
When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
-
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
-
I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
-
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
-
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
-
Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
-
I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.
-
There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.
-
When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.
-
I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
-
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
-
I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
-
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
-
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
-
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
-
Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
-
I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
-
I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.
-
I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
-
Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.
-
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
