Bars Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks Download Open image “Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.” — Gwendolyn Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bars Candy Candy bar Preference Teaching Truth
The problem with some truth-tellers is that they don't do it in a way that makes people want to listen. — Kathleen Kennedy Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing. — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers.” “How’s that?” “Because truth is the safest lie.” — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them,… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with… — Christie Rampone Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
If you look at coffee, tea, food and juice, we think there are inherent opportunities. If you look at health bars or grab-and-go products… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I bet a guy at a bar 50 bucks that I was more dysfunctional than he was. He raped me. So I tipped him.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
