Top 35 Barnacle Quotes

#1. The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, except indeed the mollusc life, a barnacle upon eternity.

Helen Waddell

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#2. I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

Vance Gilbert

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#3. I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

Charles Darwin

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#4. If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat.

Sara Levine

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#5. Come on, lover, let's have a look, Eric said, giving me a quick kiss. He jumped off the back porch with me still attached to him - like a large barnacle

Charlaine Harris

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#6. Busyness does not make you money, business do. Are you running a busyness or a business?

Saji Ijiyemi

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#7. The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.

Fred Allen

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#8. Suddenly I had this feeling, this absolute certainty, that I was never going to be able to let him go. It was as simple and as hard as that. I had clung to him like a barnacle all these years, and now I couldn't cut away. It was my own fault, really. I couldn't let go of Conrad.

Jenny Han

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#9. I was defending my daughter, Barnacle Beard! Your punk son was trying to rape her!

Rick Riordan

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#10. I don't know whether my husband is a genius or not, but he certainly has a dirty mind.

Nora Barnacle

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#11. Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

H. P. Blavatsky

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#12. I told him I'm not going to marry you and hang on to you like a barnacle, just to keep you to myself and stop you loving anyone else.

Kristin Cashore

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#13. God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.

James Joyce

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#14. In the distance Richard could see the skyscrapers of Los Angeles rising out of the ocean; barnacle crusted concrete and steel emerging from crashing waves. Once a symbol of economic might, they were now a macabre monument to the mortality of man.

Alexander Ferrick

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#15. Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)

Nora Barnacle

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#16. There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.

Jeffrey Fry

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#17. Simply switching to a healthy, plant-based diet can lessen stroke risk by reducing cholesterol and blood pressure, flooding your body with antioxidants and improving blood flow.

Michael Greger

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#18. Resentment is anger looking for payback. It's also a high-interest-earning emotion. Each new resentment is added to the ones from before. Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a bitter barnacle of hatred.

Augusten Burroughs

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#19. One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

Angelina Grimke

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#20. How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans.

Bob Marley

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#21. Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person." So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me.

Jessa Crispin

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#22. Many races believe that it was created by some sort of god, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.

Douglas Adams

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#23. I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

Jochen Zeitz

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#24. The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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#25. Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

Augusten Burroughs

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#26. Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like.

Gail Carriger

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#27. As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

Jim Hodges

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#28. In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

A.S. Byatt

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#29. We can complain and remain, or praise and be raised.

Joyce Meyer

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#30. Bin Laden was constantly revolving in his mind the fact that he had got rid of the Russians; therefore, the Americans can be got rid of, too. And where better than in the country where he knows how to fight?

Robert Fisk

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#31. He grows on you. Sort of like a barnacle.

Maria V. Snyder

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#32. You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.

Viola Davis

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#33. The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

Lewis Carroll

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#34. Maybe a story will cheer you up ... Once upon a time there was an ugly barnacle. It was so ugly that everyone died. The end.

Patrick Star

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#35. I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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