Barnaby Quotes

#1. Something peculiar is happening to my head. I remember that my father was Barnaby, but I had another named Balaton. Unless that's a lake in Albania.

Stanislaw Lem

#2. If we don't get a good day's work out of you, we'll maroon you.
He ignored Barnaby's raised eyebrow. They'd never marooned anybody before, even the English nobles they hated, but Gideon meant to put the fear of God into the man.

Sabrina Jeffries

#3. I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.

Tony Abbott

#4. The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.

Edward Eager

#5. The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

Janet Evanovich

#6. I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

George Brandis

#7. What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

Tom Allen

#8. No man or woman is uniformly successful ... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

Barnaby Keeney

#9. The buildings of the great city of Placeholder sprawled either side of the dark crack of the river like boils on buttocks. There

Barnaby Yard

#10. Some people aren't touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you'd walk into the family room and there'd be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns.

Chris O'Donnell

#11. At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

Barnaby C. Keeney

#12. Kissing onscreen is the worst thing in the world. I'm OK with lovemaking scenes, but I hate kissing.

Bipasha Basu

#13. Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

Vladimir Putin

#14. Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games.

Barnaby Conrad

#15. Insofar as climate denial hinders technical progress, it might hasten real disasters, which in their turn can make catastrophic thinking still more credible.

Timothy Snyder

#16. was invited to go back and have tea and talk with

Shannon Galpin

#17. So that whether the pain of a wound in the groin (caeteris paribus) is greater than the pain of a wound in the knee - or
Whether the pain of a wound in the knee is not greater than the pain of a wound in the groin - are points which to this day remain unsettled.

Laurence Sterne

#18. He wanted his mother with the fiery need of a five-year-old lost at Disneyland.

J.P. Barnaby

#19. His younger brothers, Allen and Anthony, hadn't come downstairs yet. Aaron, Allen, and Anthony - their straight As, as his parents had joked before their first A became an F.

J.P. Barnaby

#20. Can I get your cell phone number so we can text like normal antisocial human beings, since we are both too fucked up to have a conversation?

J.P. Barnaby

#21. In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.

Esra Saydam

#22. I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.

Eliza Cook

#23. So far he'd been there for three hours, hadn't gotten a thing done, was heading out for a free lunch, and was getting paid for it. Jobs were awesome.

J.P. Barnaby

#24. She was careful with her apple tree. She did not ask too much of it.

Hannah Barnaby

#25. Our words were a shaky ladder; all I could do was climb, uncertain if I was about to surmount a glorious peak or fall and smash myself on the rocks below.

Deva Fagan

#26. I can suck the chrome off a bumper and leave the car still standing. In other words, I am sexually gifted, a hero among gay men.

J.P. Barnaby

#27. The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

Barnaby C. Keeney

#28. So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.

Sol Luckman