K. K. Barrett Quotes

For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

And lips say “God be pitiful,” Who ne'er said “God be praised.”

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

Of writing many books there is no end.

The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

Books succeed; and lives fail.

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.

If youve got five cameras, youre making sure that youre in the right position for each one of the cameras.

I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.

Ignoring the expectations is what leads you realize the true potential

The future is much simpler than you think.

I have a funny process : it’s called procrastination.

The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it.

I don't think we're wasting people in space.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.

Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.

I'm really a pussycat - with an iron tail.

Which is bigger? A baby eagle or a giant crow?

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

Singles are always simple.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach

Earth's crammed with heaven...But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God.

I want you to remember this—you and I are in this life together. All the way. We don’t run just because we get sacked a few times.

Rituals help us change modes.

God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.

You may have started a war, ” Jean growled. “All for what?”Ammon growled back. “To take back this world! To never live in fear again!

You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world.

Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.

Good aims not always make good books.

It is rather whenWe gloriously forget ourselves, and plungeSoul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth--'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

Fiction is the best the self-help book.

A dream? With you, reality is always as a dream. There is no greater fantasy, no grander epic, than being with you.

This world you think you know? It's hidden... in shards of reality.

And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak, Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that tiesMy hair...now could I but unloose my soul!We are sepulchred alive in this close world, And want more room.

Much of your strength as a woman can come from the resolve to replenish and fill your own well and essence first, before taking care of others.

We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They'll have to offer a well-presented theatre show.