Barbara Comyns Quotes

#1. Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

Helen Oyeyemi

#2. I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.

Alice Walker

#3. When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies.

Barbara Comyns

#4. No new reader, however charitable, could open "Fifty Shades of Grey," browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

Anthony Lane

#5. You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Victor Hugo

#6. I had a kind of idea if you controlled your mind and said, 'I won't have any babies' very hard, they most likely wouldn't come. I thought that was what was meant by birth-control, but by this time I knew that idea was quite wrong.

Barbara Comyns

#7. One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.

Craig Finn

#8. There is that constant judgment in this world: How are we going to make sure we do not feel inferior to another?

Elizabeth Strout

#9. It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.

Barbara Comyns

#10. Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#11. Acting is very start and stop.

Estelle Parsons

#12. However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

Ruben Hinojosa

#13. When you have new jeans, you don't like the ones you just wore. It's crazy, but that's fashion.

Renzo Rosso

#14. Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowing into my ears.' But the humble, common tears had relieved me[ ... ]

Barbara Comyns

#15. Trusting me is a dangerous game, mi Adelinetta.

Marie Lu

#16. I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach.

Volker Bertelmann

#17. Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media (like the phone) has now expanded to include a third option: two-way media that operates on a scale from private to public.

Clay Shirky

#18. Two people were swimming in the sea
One was alive and the other dead. See.

Barbara Comyns

#19. Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

Nhat Hanh

#20. I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

Lesley Garrett

#21. Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone.

Barbara Comyns

#22. When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.

Max Lucado