Beard Science Quotes
"So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants." ― Lao Tzu
"If you ignored a cake’s personality the cake would ignore you. It’ll be a rude, boring cake."
"Better to wake up at the butt crack of dawn than sell the good people of Barbern boring cakes."
"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure." ― Herman Melville, Moby Dick
"First impressions were typically correct. My first impressions were always correct."
"I only had time for twenty-four people (tops) in my life, and I already had six siblings."
"Ain’t nobody got time for more than two birthday celebrations a month. That’s a lot of cake, and I’m particular about my cake."
"If he be Mr. Hyde," he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek." ― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
"I’m basically the Rocky Balboa of bakers. I’m unstoppable!"
"The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
"I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better . . ."
"Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high."
"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living." — Søren Kierkegaard
"Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns." — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
"You are going to change one thing every day for the next month."
"Are you always going to do everything your mother likes?"
"I’d rather make people laugh than make them cry."
"I’m as gentle as a toothless, blind bunny rabbit."
"Moral of the story, Jenn: you’re getting a free pass, so try to loosen up."
"Let the record show, never say never to Cletus Winston."
"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."
"Old things have soul. And young things have spirit."
"I find that it makes everything nicer for me if I turn insults into compliments."
"You’ll want to keep the conversation about the two of you."
"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
"I do not need to explain myself. You will not wear that. You will wear the dress I laid out for you."
"You have no idea how gorgeous you are, do you?"
"No, no. We don’t want to keep you. You kids should get going."
"Nothing was provocative about the dress . . . and yet, everything was provocative about the dress."
"Then don’t lead her on, Billy. Don’t call her gorgeous."
"My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony."
"We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people."
"You should put castor oil in their banana cake frosting and weld their toilet shut."
"Jennifer Sylvester, you have the most beautiful eyes I’ve ever seen."
"If you’re making love, then experience and good moves are a bonus, but not at all important. It’s the person, not the technique, that makes it worthwhile."
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"
"Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass."
"Love at the lips was touch as sweet as I could bear; and once that seemed too much; I lived on air."
"No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself."
"Honestly, Momma? I don’t like those dresses, and they don’t make me feel pretty. They make me feel like a fool."
"I just wanted different for myself. I wanted to be honest, and I wanted her to listen and understand."
"How was I supposed to breathe when I wasn’t even allowed to think?"
"I feel like I’m a character in the theme park of my life, and it’s a lonely place to be."
"Maybe I didn’t fit. And that thought made me cry."
"I wasn’t going to be helpless. Not anymore. I was taking control."
"For Cletus, it had been tutoring. He’d been helping me practice. Poor, ignorant, inexperienced Jennifer Sylvester."
"I wanted us to be equals. But that is never going to happen."
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
"Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul."
"I can’t break your heart without breaking mine, and I’m terribly fond of my heart."
"You want to know what you are to me? Fine. You’re my beginning, middle, and end."
"Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, whereas economics represents how it actually does work."
"Three things cannot hide for long: the Moon, the Sun, and the Truth."
"Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria... Their hearts suffer the pain of what is hidden to the naked eye."
"I know you have all these sinister irons in the fire, but every day can’t be that bad."
"No matter what happened in your past, what ghosts might lurk there, the road you take is ultimately up to you."
"I felt sorry for you. But now I realize, I should have felt sorry for myself. I was the one missing out."
"You can’t know what your actions may cause, how they might affect someone."
"Life was finally happening. I was making it happen."
"Stay away from the normals, the small-minded people who fill their brains with small-minded pursuits."
"I’m in love with Cletus Winston and we’re together and I’m very happy."
"Isaac won’t even talk to me and you’re running off in the middle of the night to be with the town oddball because you don’t like yellow dresses anymore."
"I’m going to tell you something, and you’re not going to believe me. But there’s proof."
"I’m just very busy trying to rebuild the family business."
"It’s about Dad and what he’s been doing on the weekends."
"Those lemon cakes are the only thing that helps."
"Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities."
"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."
"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."
"I want you to vote on whether I see this plan through."
"No one expects an eighty-five-year-old Navy SEAL stripper."
"I missed your birthday, so here are your presents."
"I hope—in the future, whenever we fought—we’d always end our arguments with a hug."
"I don’t like you pulling me over for no reason, wasting my time. And I don’t like you pulling over my brothers either."
"More like the sheriff. You know. Like a badass officer of righteousness and awesome."
"Unexpectedly, the side of Jackson’s mouth hitched and his eyes—instead of dimming and growing sullen, as I’d expected—warmed with respect."
"You’re a lucky man, Cletus. Jennifer is a beautiful woman."
"It’s the banana. The banana in my cake makes it wet."
"You are lovely, Jenn. No matter what color you paint your hair, I love it and I love you."