I picked a reverence for medicine because I rather hero-worshiped my father (a former doctor), and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don`t admire crystals and chewing willow bark and herbal remedies.
- Hugh Laurie(on the responses to his being vegan) My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don`t put me in danger. For a while, every meal was the third degree, but when she couldn`t refute any of the thousands of good reasons--my health, simple compassion, the health of the planet, etc., etc.--for being a vegan, she conceded and now is very conscious of what food she makes when I am around--and, I believe, when I am not around. She is lovely. My father never blinked. He is for the most part unflappable. In a good way. Live and let live--unless you are being an asshole. He will privately mock, ridicule, judge, etc. But, hey, who`s gonna cast the first stone? For people who have been through it, made changes, had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me. No, I`m only kidding. It only scares me--I mean, the small-minded. I think if I gave my dad a five-minute rundown on the advantages of veganism, I could convert him without too much trouble. I`ll do it next time I see him. Maybe. I`m not much into the converting business, though.
- Casey AffleckMy family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
- Casey AffleckThese I saw there, in a house well constructed of oak bark, and circular in shape, so that it had the appearance of being built with an arched roof.
- Henry HudsonAs the poet said, `Only God can make a tree` -- probably because it`s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
- Woody AllenI have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn`t be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year`s resolution is not to bark back.
- Tucker Carlson(Another resident, Jennifer Taylor, ran to the area near the tree and scooped up a large piece of bark.) It`s for my neighbor, ... She couldn`t come out, and she wanted something from the old tree.
- Jennifer TaylorThe woods were wild at nightfall. She heard dim crashing and splashes and the bark of a dog, and through the gaps in the trees was a mottled sky of fading pink and grey discs, microbes moving toward the west. She had almost gotten away but not in time and now leaving wouldn`t save her. She lay down on the deck with the woods all around her.
- Joy WilliamsI used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.
- Jerry ReedDon`t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonThe bark is just like candy for deer.
- Tom FoxDon`t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
- Samuel JohnsonI want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
- Bob SchiefferI knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
- Albert SternerThus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
- Amanda LenhartHe said, Master! Master! Speed up. These dogs might bite us` ... `Be quiet, when the dogs bark it is because we are working.
- Andrew ZalaskyIn making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, ``No`` --who is not resolved that he will take God`s way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside--will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.
- Anna JamesonHis bark is worse than his bite. He`s got a gruff exterior but underneath is a heart of gold.
- Anne LangBuddy is really going to enjoy this, because he`s so inquisitive, ... He`ll watch TV and bark at it.
- Arturo Freeman