Top 100 Barlow Quotes
#1. Paine and Joel Barlow attempted to change Jefferson's mind, urging him to settle thrifty German immigrants in the new lands and to permit black families to travel from other states to acquire their own land there, but the sugar interest triumphed,
Christopher Hitchens
#2. Let's just say I haven't been keeping up the Gary Barlow persona; I've let loose.
Liam Payne
#3. I want to be Gary Barlow and peak when I'm 40. That's my plan - he's who I'm modeling myself on. Most people are completely beautiful when they're young, and then there's always a point when they get older where they say: 'Oh, what happened?!'
James Corden
#4. Lizzie Barlow stood her ground. She could feel no sympathy for her daughter at the moment. They had to get on that bus to Indiana, and there was no time for the temper-tantrums of a ten-year-old to complicate their already life-threatening situation. "I'm
Samantha Bayarr
#5. The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
Bruce Boxleitner
#7. Is this a date? I mean, like, right now? You and me?"
"I don't know, Molly Barlow. Do you want it to be?
Katie Cotugno
#8. Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship.
-Deryn Sharp
Scott Westerfeld
#9. Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time,
Maude Barlow
#10. There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
Joel Barlow
#11. I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target ... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.
John Perry Barlow
#12. The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us.
Toby Barlow
#14. The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.
John Perry Barlow
#15. Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
John Perry Barlow
#16. We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization and we will not rest until we see it realized.
Maude Barlow
#17. I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
Gary Barlow
#18. Anxiety kills relatively few people, but many more would welcome death as an alternative to the paralysis and suffering resulting from anxiety in its severe forms.
David Barlow
#19. But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
John Perry Barlow
#20. The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
Gary Barlow
#21. How anybody in town could think me a murderer when I couldn't even throw a stray out into the rain, I cannot fathom.
Linda Barlow
#22. You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.
Toby Barlow
#23. I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance.
John Barlow
#24. Monkeys
What! His partner said.
Monkeys are funny, said Peabody.'So why didn't we we pick monkeys.
His partner sighed and shook his head with sad dismay.
Monkeys? Jesus.
Monkeys' idea of fun is throwing their shit at you. Monkeys always take the joke a step too far.
Toby Barlow
#25. Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.
John Perry Barlow
#26. So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
John Perry Barlow
#27. We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.
John Perry Barlow
#28. Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a water-secure world. I heartily recommend his provocative, information-packed, and highly readable new book Unquenchable.
Maude Barlow
#29. Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander ... It's just an extension of humanity.
John Perry Barlow
#30. Music, Take That and what we do is not real life. It's magical.
As soon as you begin to believe it the magic will disappear.
Gary Barlow
#32. It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.
Joel Barlow
#33. You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
Scott Westerfeld
#34. I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!
Gary Barlow
#35. Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony
John Perry Barlow
#36. We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time.
Gary Barlow
#37. That's what makes it so right. Your eyes - your soul is there, but the rest of you is still so undefined. That's the beauty of childhood. The eyes show everything you've seen so far, but the rest of you is still so open to possibility, to whatever you might become.
Bree Despain
#38. friends, and, of course," - he glanced toward their sleeping daughter - "the love of a father and mother for their child. All these taken together, with all the joy and pain that they confer - that can save us, surely. Love of life, Alix. You have it. And since I've found you, so do I.
Linda Barlow
#39. Look for magic in the daily routine.
Lou Barlow
#40. She suspected Oliver only wanted some token acknowledgment that despite her moving on, their exchange had not been completely superficial. She found even the most cavalier sorts still hated to let things pass completely unspoken. Everyone wanted to put a meaning to things.
Toby Barlow
#41. After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.
Gary Barlow
#42. You either trust or you distrust coincidence. It 's either small doses of magic pulling you to your appointed destiny or the devil trying to lead you down to the thorns.
Toby Barlow
#43. Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.
John Perry Barlow
#44. I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.
John Perry Barlow
#45. The theory is simple.
Every boy, every man, is really
a bit of a golden retriever
or a big chocolate Lab.
Watch any man's eyes
at the bounce of a ball.
His head tilts slightly sideways, just a hair,
as a primitive focus
comes to life.
Toby Barlow
#46. The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
John Perry Barlow
#48. Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear "Love" by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment it will bring me to tears.
Lou Barlow
#49. You can't own something unless you can swallow it
Toby Barlow
#50. I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
John Perry Barlow
#52. Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.
Maude Barlow
#53. They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.
John Perry Barlow
#56. He was high up now, gazing across to where Montmartre itself gazed out over the city. He was swept along in the wind, admiring the twin steeples of Notre-Dame as he passed, along with the dogged, devilish gargoyles of St. Jacques.
Toby Barlow
#57. the first responsibility of a human
being is to be a better ancestor.
John Perry Barlow
#58. It seemed Paris somehow managed to absorb all the beautiful things the rest of the world discarded; it was a sparkling and bejeweled box of lost treasures, a wondrous cabinet that hummed with soft horn harmonies played against a grand piano's minor chords.
Toby Barlow
#59. Knowing someone isn't coming back
doesn't mean you ever stop waiting
Toby Barlow
#60. He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.
Joel Barlow
#61. That's the difference, a true friend is happy for you no matter what you do and what you have and quite frankly I didn't have the time for meaningless conversations or friendships that drained me of my energy.
Christie Barlow
#62. This is so much better than the 60's. So much less self indulgent and desperate. What you have here is a large group of people trying to practice unconditional love for strangers, and for the most part, succeeding.
John Perry Barlow
#64. Some things should stay mysteries," said Metzli. "The moon would not be the same moon, if one side did not remain in the dark.
Linda Barlow
#65. New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.
John Perry Barlow
#66. That's what love does/ It chases the dragons away/ before their claws can sink in.
Toby Barlow
#67. This coyote is a wily dog born
from ancient trickster bones,
Loki, Hermes, the northwestern Raven of lore
Toby Barlow
#68. I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
Gary Barlow
#69. There are two things that make
the conscious world move,
decision and desire.
Toby Barlow
#70. The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.
John Perry Barlow
#71. I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.
John Perry Barlow
#72. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
John Perry Barlow
#73. I'm secretly hoping for the full five.
Gary Barlow
#74. The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.
Joel Barlow
#75. Minimum wages tends to elicit minimum attention.
Toby Barlow
#76. Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry Barlow
#77. One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?
John Perry Barlow
#78. Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day.
Gary Barlow
#79. The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History
Maude Barlow
#81. I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
John Perry Barlow
#82. We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
John Perry Barlow
#83. I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know.
John Perry Barlow
#84. Each dog marks a section of our lives, and in the end, we feed them to the dark, burying them there while we carry on.
Toby Barlow
#85. She would say 'Bucket moon'
he would answer 'Ladle moon.'
Night after night sky revealed a
bitten moon, a butcher's moon,
an apple moon, a thief's moon,
a rabbit
'Rabbit moon?'
'Don't you see it?'
'I used to chase rabbits,' she had said,
her voice sweet and tired.
Toby Barlow
#86. Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.
John Perry Barlow
#87. I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
John Perry Barlow
#88. It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
John Perry Barlow
#89. In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.
Joel Barlow
#90. With the development of the Internet ... we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to think that it was just the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but now I think you have to go back farther.
John Perry Barlow
#91. How old are you?"
"Ah that is a good one. I do not know."
"Before cars?"
"Before trains, before guns. Before people stole the curves from the high clouds and the angles from the flying flocks to build all their little alphabets.
Toby Barlow
#93. He said, You know, whoever hurt you
dies every time they look in the mirror.
That is how they pay."
She crossed her arms.
"And one day, Maria, you will die too,
but there's no reason for you to die
every day.
Toby Barlow
#94. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
John Perry Barlow
#95. But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
John Perry Barlow
#96. The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.
John Perry Barlow
#97. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
John Perry Barlow
#98. When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
John Perry Barlow
#99. The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
John Perry Barlow
#100. I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.
John Perry Barlow
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