FastSaying

Before they killed him, they enacted one last act of cruel and unusual punishment. They pretended they couldn't find the vein and caused him to writhe in pain. This went on for 25 minutes. And it took 10 minutes to kill him. A reporter called me the next day and said she had never seen such a barbaric scene.


Barbara Becnel

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES They (the suspects) threatened to kill him (the victim) if it happened again and stuff, and then mad...
LT. CHIS BURCHELL The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They w...
LEE SULLIVAN After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, wha...
JANIS KARPINSKI His educated estimate is that she was in the water for at least 30 to 40 minutes. That differs subst...
ED PARKINSON And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand...
BIBLE It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardl...
JEANNE PYLE I started calling around, and everybody told me about this kid Chad Campbell in Texas. They said he ...
DWAINE KNIGHT And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him,...
BIBLE They killed him, and they're trying to cover it up, and I'm not going to let them. They killed my ch...
GINA SLONE It took them a few minutes but they were able to talk him into putting it down. We're blessed no one...
JAMES MANNING His wife told police that he had had a concussion a few weeks before, and they didn't know what the ...
MELISSA MCDONALD People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin...
BRUCE STERLING After all my crying and yelling, they let me see him behind the glass window for five minutes.
ASHLEY PAINTER So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him...
STEVE BURTON They had been watching the area for a while and they were able to tag Cannon as a dealer. When they ...
ANDREW ARRINGTON You get a call and it's your daughter-in-law crying saying she's giving him CPR and trying to keep h...
JEFF COLLIER The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jac...
ICE T I definitely think that if she had him on the table for 10 minutes, he'd retract all of his statemen...
DAVE ROBERTS He was real nervous. I took off my jacket, put him on the ground and wrestled with him for about ten...
ANDY PIPHER And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the...
BIBLE Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what...
RAINER MARIA RILKE The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say something. I d...
KEITH ADAMS The Doktor took a fly swatter and hit it hard. ‘Bang!’ it went. But it didn’t go splat! The ro...
CHRISTINA ENGELA They went in to capture him, he did not surrender and he was killed in the raid,
STEVE BOYLAN But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a pro...
BIBLE He did a good job of controlling his rebounds. That was good for him and good for the team. I think ...
GREG PUHALSKI She closed her eyes and took a deep breath for one last time and let his hand go. She saw his boat d...
AKSHAY VASU I'm skin and bone when they see me. I'm tall and skinny. The first thing the wife said to her husban...
ALEXANDER BUNEGIN Then they saw him pull out in a white Honda with the headlights off and drive to the scene, where th...
DUSTIN DEUTSCH I called him and told him to turn on the Pentagon Channel, since (the children) were going to be on ...
JENNIFER HANSON Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go ...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE They stayed right in there, and after the first 10 minutes, Greenwood was never a threat to us.
JASON BOWEN He said because she was a good sleeper before she'd cry for a few minute, I went in after 10 minutes...
CRYSTAL JASKULA They had seen him before and that's what makes it even more impressive. They obviously had a good id...
BUCK SHOWALTER And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when thos...
BIBLE They caught us off-guard on defense at the beginning. In the first four minutes of the game they too...
COACH JOANNE HENSCH I called the 'Geek Squad.' They said, 'Oh, yeah, you've got it.' It took them two minutes to fix it,...
BRIAN PETERSON This was not adversarial at all. He called me and said he appreciated the fact we gave him his first...
BERNIE BICKERSTAFF I thought he was OK, but he stopped breathing and they had to put him on a respirator. When I was ab...
CODY COLVIN It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight...
MONICA JOHNSON She had a husband in the Aleutians, and sent him a telegram telling him how to answer the questions,...
PHILLIP LEVINE They did a good job of neutralizing us in the last 10 minutes. We couldn't get in on them and give a...
BRENDAN MORRISON We came into the game as a very good rebounding team and nobody had done that to us this year. I don...
GREG KAMPE Three weeks later, they called and said for him to get his passport ready.
DEBBIE DIETRICK And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they ...
BIBLE They called my 73-year-old father and they told him they were going to hurt his whole family. They s...
PAUL POLITIS She'd seen the kindness in him that he hid from the world, and she'd glimpsed some of the pain that ...
SHERRILYN KENYON They gave him a steak the night before the bout and said they had prepared that one especially for h...
BERT SUGAR It was a great day in Carolina. The team, they took right to him.
DAVID HASKINS The one thing they could tell me they could hang their hat on was, they had never fired a coach. The...
MIKE BELLOTTI I think every day gets a little bit tougher on them. In fact, I know they are at the point ... they ...
TIM MILLER For 40 years a man was quiet observing ,while people that were close to him at the time took advanta...
GARY F EVANS... They killed him and fled.
IZATULLAH WASIFI But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among...
BIBLE And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood befor...
BIBLE They kicked him, they beat him around the head and shoulder (areas, and) one tried to stab him with ...
BOB THOMAS If you want to know about John Kerry's values, ask the men who served with him in Vietnam, ... He pu...
JOHN EDWARDS And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
BIBLE They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.
GARY CHERONE It wasn't an accidental shooting. It was more like they knew who they wanted and did what they had t...
GREG BAUCUM (On WWI:)

A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili o...
BERYL MARKHAM Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
BIBLE I went up a couple of days before he got in, and I said, 'My baby is bored,' so they gave him work t...
MARGARET COX The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had t...
JIMMY BRESLIN And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the...
BIBLE Don't you leave him! they said to me. Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I asked one store owner if I could put a few bottles on the shelf, ... I gave him a cold one to drin...
CHRIS REED I knew Mark trusted doctors. If they told him to take it, he'd never question it. Then, he went home...
ANNA SHEA I was really proud of the kids. They wore red ribbons across their hearts for Ryan, and they also de...
CHRISTINA AGUIRRE And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspi...
BIBLE They can only spend about 20 or 30 minutes before they run into pockets of carbon monoxide. It takes...
JOE ALLBAUGH Rice had a great night, nobody could stay with him. They spread us out, took it to the hoop, they ju...
GARY JUSTASON The fact of the matter is that the hospital killed him. They caused his death, not her.
IAN HIRSCH I had a talk to him and his boss (Lee Hope) today when they called in.
DES GLEESON She has a gift for that. She breaks horses in a matter of minutes, literally, no joke. I've seen her...
ERNIE PARAGALLO What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he...
GLADYS BETTIS At dawn, Aedion had burst in, demanding why they weren’t ready to leave—to go home. Lysandra had...
SARAH J. MAAS Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it...
PAULO COELHO Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL They wouldn’t have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once th...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a ...
MARK WALLACE Once they killed him, they continued to use his car and home. They envied his position in life.
DENNIS BARRY In the second half Tucker took over the game. They went small with him and he was awfully tough for ...
QUIN SNYDER It was a little problem at the beginning. I felt it in the first couple of minutes. It took me a whi...
JUAN DIAZ I went out there for five minutes and busted him. I talked (trash) for a day. I'm still trying to he...
CORIE BLOUNT England had a look at Jimmy in the nets and that's why they called him up,
DARREN GOUGH He was going door-to-door looking for school crossing guards and went to my in-laws' house, ... They...
KAREN TURNER I asked Raghav, as we were looking over the wasteland, if the Muslims they burnt would beg for their...
SUKETU MEHTA His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he m...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown...
CHARLES GRODIN I said I wouldn't leave his body. They said to leave his ID on him and leave him. They could only sa...
BARBARA PRATT I went after him because [the rest of the team] had left, and I was just sitting in the parking lot ...
DAINIUS ZUBRUS He growled and grimaced as they came to him, and clenched his fists in pain and anger.

"U...
GARTH NIX Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h...
SHERMAN ALEXIE For seven or eight minutes they kept begging him to come out, some of them saying drop it, put it do...
LEE SULLIVAN Before she could stop her hands, they reached for him, as though they existed for no other reason th...
RENEE AHDIEH [For him, that role illustrated some of the quirks of live theater.] They liked my hair, ... then th...
EDWARD HYDE She came home and she said they fired him because he married a teacher.
JOAN GREENE They never quit and we never quit, but the difference was they ran out of gas in the last four minut...
WALLY SANCHEZ

More Barbara Becnel

Once he was dead and we were waiting to leave, I whispered to another friend, 'Let's say the State o...
BARBARA BECNEL We're definitely approaching the Texas model. We just had an execution a month ago. And I'll be back...
BARBARA BECNEL His story is not ending here.
BARBARA BECNEL If they think they succeeded by killing him in getting people to forget about him, they have done ju...
BARBARA BECNEL What Stan hopes this accomplishes is that it further strengthens the message of his work. He didn't ...
BARBARA BECNEL Today is a shameful day in the history of American jurisprudence. Today the U.S. Supreme Court has s...
BARBARA BECNEL The young people to whom he speaks have no hope. What Stan presents is hope that they too can change...
BARBARA BECNEL Today is a shameful day in the history of American jurisprudence, ... Today the U.S. Supreme Court h...
BARBARA BECNEL Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is OK for a white district attorney to kick all of the mi...
BARBARA BECNEL The new Roberts court has sent a powerful and compelling message and that message is we don't give a...
BARBARA BECNEL Today is a shameful day in the history of American jurisprudence, ... Today the U.S. Supreme Court h...
BARBARA BECNEL Why would someone loot when they had a car with a refrigerator and had paid with a credit card at th...
DANIEL BECKETT BECNEL III She has slipped through the cracks and the wheels of justice have stopped turning.
DANIEL BECKETT BECNEL III The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
BARBARA SHER Isolation is a dream killer.
BARBARA SHER When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ...
BARBARA SHER Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr...
BARBARA SHER Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the...
BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ...
BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ...
BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi...
BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi...
BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ...
BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ...
BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ...
BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t...
BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls...
BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat...
BARBARA OLSON Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho...
BARBARA OLSON It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an...
BARBARA MANDRELL What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t...
BARBARA MANDRELL That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
BARBARA MANDRELL It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL I think it was 37 years that I did music.
BARBARA MANDRELL I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
BARBARA MANDRELL For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he gradu...
BARBARA MANDRELL And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h...
BARBARA MANDRELL When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high h...
BARBARA MANDRELL I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six w...
BARBARA MANDRELL When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
BARBARA MANDRELL We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa...
BARBARA MANDRELL I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at pe...
BARBARA MANDRELL There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire....
BARBARA MANDRELL I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And ...
BARBARA MANDRELL That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
BARBARA MANDRELL I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even ...
BARBARA MANDRELL In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 ...
BARBARA MANDRELL I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and let...
BARBARA MANDRELL I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene...
BARBARA MANDRELL I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or thi...
BARBARA MANDRELL I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, ...
BARBARA MANDRELL It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors...
BARBARA MANDRELL I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
BARBARA MANDRELL The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
BARBARA LYNN I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him...
BARBARA LYNN I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
BARBARA LYNN You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin...
BARBARA LYNN I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I...
BARBARA LYNN In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think...
BARBARA LYNN I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per...
BARBARA LYNN God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
BARBARA LYNN I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
BARBARA LEE We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'...
BARBARA LEE What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi...
BARBARA LEE I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against...
BARBARA LEE The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de...
BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop...
BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ...
BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t...
BARBARA LEE I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in thei...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds...
BARBARA KRUGER I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ...
BARBARA KRUGER It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi...
BARBARA KRUGER Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages...
BARBARA KRUGER I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what...
BARBARA KRUGER Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons...
BARBARA KRUGER I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different...
BARBARA KRUGER Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ...
BARBARA KRUGER Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur...
BARBARA KRUGER I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins...
BARBARA KRUGER Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic...
BARBARA KRUGER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a...
BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new...
BARBARA KRUGER I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
BARBARA KRUGER Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
BARBARA KRUGER Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated...
BARBARA KRUGER I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta...
BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin...
BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER