Lynda Barry Quotes

Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.

Lynda Barry

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GodTruthTeacherLightSchoolLook

When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.

Joe R. Lansdale

LiveSmallYouSmall TownInside

I know the way WWE works. Things change last minute.

Jinder Mahal

ChangeKnowWayThingsMinuteLast

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

Jenny Eclair

BadNiceHeroesCompetitiveBecause

Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not.

Melody Beattie

CrazyFeelSomeoneTryingPerson

I am strictly against a European superstate.

Jean-Claude Juncker

I AmAgainstEuropeanAmStrictly

If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be out of a job. A black president can't end black misery; a black president can't be a civil rights leader or primarily a crusader for racial justice.

Michael Eric Dyson

LeaderFutureJusticeJobBlackEnd

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Sophocles

FearHimEverythingWho

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.

Sid Bernstein

LoveBeautyFlowersGreenLanguage

Nobody could emerge from a childhood at MGM unscathed.

Michael Korda

ChildhoodNobodyEmergeCouldMGM

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

ThoughtRealityLanguageHarmony

It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a doll with grandma's dress, but then they also let me know they're bummed I didn't do any of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

Colleen Atwood

GreatFunDressMeKnowMovies

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

Penn Jillette

ReadingWantEveryoneAnythingUs

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