Lynda Barry Quotes

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

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• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

  

  Halle Berry
  • You
  • First
  • Step

• My father had very little formal education.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Father
  • Education
  • Little

• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Prosperity

• The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Future
  • Leadership

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Nature

• You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Think
  • Funny

• We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • You
  • Space
  • Wonder

• Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Stop

• It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • People
  • Up
  • Energy

• Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Character
  • Work Hard

• Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Life
  • Country
  • Why

• I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• Then spoke the thunder DA Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Friend

• 'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • World
  • Wisdom

• Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

  

  Charlie Trotter

• The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • Soul
  • Today
  • Learning

• I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Need
  • I Love
  • Feminist

• When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

  

  Lynda Barry