"What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne."

“I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.”

“I think everyone's so scared of other people judging them.”

Source : "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

“The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on ***** is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.”

“The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.”

“The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.”

Source : John Hanning Speke (1863). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.17

“I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.”

“I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.”

“I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.”