Barbarian Nurseries Quotes

#1. He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

Edmund Spenser

#2. America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.

Walter J. Phillips

#4. I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

David LaChapelle

#5. Being afraid is the worst sin there is.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

#6. She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience.

J.K. Rowling

#7. We didn't know it was the last days but we should have.

Junot Diaz

#8. PlayStation: Live in your world. Play in ours...
...and once you're hooked on gaming
you'll live and play in our world exclusively.

Beryl Dov

#9. It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Men of sense do not want silly wives.

Jane Austen

#11. I thought of Will telling me if I didn't stop bloody whistling he'd be forced to run me over.

Jojo Moyes