Spradley Barr Quotes

There isn't a problem on this earth that a doughnut cannot make better. ~ Roseanne Barr

Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. ~ Roseanne Barr

I'm kosher except for times where I eat pork and shellfish. ~ Roseanne Barr

American mythology would have it that divorced or widowed women in their middle years were desperate to remarry. That had not been Polly's experience. Most had made lives they enjoyed and would only compromise for a very shiny white knight with a particularly breathtaking steed. ~ Nevada Barr

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer. ~ Roseanne Barr

One should not run on a new road. ~ Amelia Barr

When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell ... say hello for me ... ~ James O'Barr

Good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life. ~ Amelia Barr

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. ~ Amelia Barr

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. ~ Amelia Barr

You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right. ~ Roseanne Barr

Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven. ~ Nevada Barr

Have you seen this cat? ~ Emily Barr

Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life. ~ Roseanne Barr

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves. ~ Amelia Barr

Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus. ~ Matt Barr

The way I feel when you look at me is divine purpose. I don't think a species could have created this feeling that I have for you, not even in millions of years. I think it's too good and too pure, and sometimes, I don't feel worthy of such a gift and yet, it's mine. ~ Christina L. Barr

Science, as a rule beneficent, has given birth to potentialities of crime which exceed the dreams of oriental romance. ~ Robert Barr

Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs get thrown only when people cannot honestly talk together. ~ Roseanne Barr

Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry Blair. What I hadn't expected was for the backstory to make so much sense. Usually science is the first causality of superhero stories, tossed aside with the breezy rationalization: 'Hey, it's comics!' Only Superhuman is, to my knowledge, the first hard science superhero story. And the Story is the better for it. ~ Mike W. Barr

I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.' ~ Roseanne Barr

Kindness is always fashionable. ~ Amelia Barr

You can really learn from Donahue. I didn't know you could be a woman in a man's body. You go out and you can't parallel park. ~ Roseanne Barr

I went through in the edits and cut tons of stuff that was "funny" because if it wasn't funny at the time, so it shouldn't be funny now. It's about having that unity of experience. You have to try and take away your hindsight knowledge of a situation. ~ Damian Barr

The matrimonial shoe pinches me. ~ Amelia Barr

Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian. ~ Roseanne Barr

I've always been curious about the monster that lives under your bed. Even at 30 years old you lean over the bed to see if there's something under there, potentially. ~ Matt Barr

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology. ~ Roseanne Barr

Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still cared. Indifference was the most inhuman. ~ Nevada Barr

Where are you staying?
Our house. He shifted closer and I stopped breathing.
Not good. I really needed to breathe and leaned back further in my chair to put space between me and his stubble darkened chin, his oh-so-kissable mouth, his windblown hair, his...his...everything.
For the zillionth time, I wondered what the statute of limitations was on stupid decisions. Marrying him had to top the list. ~ Sue Barr

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight. ~ Roseanne Barr

She was forty before she realized that when she asked a man what he was thinking and he said, "Nothing," he wasn't lying. ~ Nevada Barr

Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time. ~ Roseanne Barr

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like a doughnut. ~ Roseanne Barr

I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now I, working as the physical manifestation of the goddess Isis and the reincarnation of Cleopatra, have decided to save the world. ~ Roseanne Barr

I thank God for creating gay men. Because if it wasn't for them, us fat women would have no one to dance with. ~ Roseanne Barr

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem. ~ Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

My best friend Linda is leaving her husband just because he is unfaithful to her. That is no reason to leave the person. I feel like after that, you should stay with them and make sure that the rest of their life is sheer hell. ~ Roseanne Barr

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing. ~ Roseanne Barr

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you. ~ Amelia Barr

I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to try and drown myself in the bath. You have to do that. And the impulse is to rescue yourself and to spare the reader, but I can't rescue myself. And why should I spare the reader when nobody spared me? It's telling people what happened. ~ Damian Barr