Top 100 Barnes Quotes
#1. People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch.
Dale Peck
#2. I am married,' she shouted, 'to the cupboard under the sink.' A remark made more mysterious to Mrs Barnes by the sound of a passing ice-cream van playing the opening bars of the 'Blue Danube'.
Alan Bennett
#3. Benji grinned back. "You're being a real asshole today, Mr. Barnes. Well done - you been practicing?" Dad smiled, obviously relaxed. "Yeah, you know, kid, a few minutes a day, you can work that muscle with the best of them.
Amy Lane
#4. In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#5. Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.
Lois Chiles
#6. First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
Jerry Saltz
#7. I say this with no fear of contradiction. Jonas Barnes is absolutely, positively the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen. Of course, I almost never leave my home. Jonas is a great guy and was a big help to me.
Danny Bonaduce
#8. Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch just announced that he is stepping down after three years. When asked if he's looking for a new job, he was like, 'Nah, just browsing.'
Jimmy Fallon
#9. In her whimsical debut author Brynne Barnes celebrates the colors of our world.
E. B. Lewis
#10. Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price.
Robert Kiyosaki
#11. I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.
George R R Martin
#12. You now can buy my book on amazon barnes & noble createspace and book review is to come for this book in 45 days
Todd Johnson
#13. Steven Barnes is uniquely powerful in helping others balance their physica and emotional arenas along a path of unifying purpose.
Gerald M. Levin
#14. When my nose finally stops bleeding and I've disposed of the bloody paper towels, Teddy Barnes insists on driving me home in his ancient Honda Civic, a car that refuses to die and that Teddy, cheap as he is, refuses to trade in.
Richard Russo
#15. As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London, buzzing with actors such as Patrick McGee and Peter Bowles. We were a family who were always on the go.
Samantha Bond
#16. But ... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
Larry Niven
#17. I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
P.C. Cast
#18. We went to a Barnes and Noble, where I picked up an unauthorized
biography of M.C. Hammer, and not wanting to overload her on her first
book, I steered Dumb Dumb toward a Choose Your Own Adventure.
Chelsea Handler
#19. Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section.
Zach Braff
#20. In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerablle to temptation. (Mr. Barnes)
Agatha Christie
#21. But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.
Jemima Kirke
#22. Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.
Susan Stinson
#23. Yeah..so this one time I got kicked out of Barnes and Noble for putting all their Bibles in the fiction section.
Corey
#24. I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.
Jessica Simpson
#25. letting go of control may be the single most important part of creating a successful classroom" (Barnes,
Mark Barnes
#26. The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
Henri Matisse
#27. I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.
David Bowie
#29. Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
Ernest Hemingway,
#30. It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes," [T.S. Eliot] wrote, "who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.
Ross Wetzsteon
#32. Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: "PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!"
Julian Fellowes
#33. Miss Barnes clearly didn't know what in the world to do. She was twenty-four years old, for heaven's sake.
Liane Moriarty
#34. I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
Randall Munroe
#35. I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.
Beth Orton
#36. Not surprisingly, where Barnes really appreciates the haunting of immanence is in the realm of the aesthetic.
James K.A. Smith
#37. The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who are slightly disinterested and are irritated at a Barnes & Noble.
Maria Bamford
#38. We don't have a single big advantage," he once told an old adversary, publisher Tim O'Reilly, back when they were arguing over Amazon protecting its patented 1-Click ordering method from rivals like Barnes & Noble. "So we have to weave a rope of many small advantages.
Brad Stone
#39. Illegal' takes on a whole new meaning when you're loaded like Barnes. The rich have a separate rule book. To them if it makes money, it can't be wrong.
Jeffrey Ford
#40. The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a political movie from video on demand, remember that it is the Supreme Court's decision in 'Citizens United' that guarantees you the right to do so.
Bradley A. Smith
#41. Still, even after the black winger John Barnes scored his solo goal to beat Brazil in Rio in 1984, the Football Association's chairman was harangued by England fans on the flight back home: "You fucking wanker, you prefer sambos to us.
Simon Kuper
#42. His fabrications seemed to be the framework of a forgotten but imposing plan; some condition of life of which he was the sole surviving retainer."
--from "La Somnambule" (1937) by Djuna Barnes
Shaun Whiteside
#43. I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.
Michael Korda
#44. The word was out that Royal Barnes was huntin' Kilkenny," somebody commented. "He was kin to the Webers, you know. Half-brother, I think.
Louis L'Amour
#45. If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance - anything you can find, strolling the aisles of a Borders or a Barnes & Noble, I can bring you many comic books representing each genre.
Michael Uslan
#46. Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.
Mark Helprin
#47. At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
Richard Paul Evans
#48. Where in the self-help section of Barnes and Noble does one find a guide on dealing with a supernatural stalker?
Cosmo Knox
#49. All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
Mark Crispin Miller
#50. To have luck and fail to act on it is tantamount to not having luck at all. In fact, it was worse. Barnes thought back to his self-help manuals. They all proclaimed with compelling force the necessity of recognizing opportunity then seizing it when it stuck.
Joseph G. Peterson
#51. Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
Pat Brown
#52. The Bible says that the Cross offends. If you are offended, I am doing my job. If you are attracted to Christ, the Spirit is doing his work. - Bruce Barnes
Tim LaHaye
#53. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
Julian Barnes
#54. Again, I must stress that this is my reading now of what happened then. Or rather, my memory now of my reading then of what was happening at the time.
Julian Barnes
#55. One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.
Djuna Barnes
#56. Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
Julian Barnes
#57. But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.
Julian Barnes
#58. This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#59. For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
Djuna Barnes
#60. Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.
Fred Barnes
#61. The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.
Simon Barnes
#62. The complications of life do not end at the altar; some might say that this is where they begin.
Julian Barnes
#63. Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
Julian Barnes
#65. How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.
Julian Barnes
#66. Making my way out of the bedroom, I found the loft empty, a visceral reminder that it had always been my sister's choice not to know me.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#67. There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.
Julian Barnes
#68. I dressed up like a crazy pharaoh for you, man!
Troy Barnes
#69. It is all just the universe doing its stuff, and we are the stuff it is being done to.
Julian Barnes
#70. Nobody says these things - it's against the rules - but deep inside we know that we are, each of us, unknowable and ultimately alone, even when we love. Most
Adrian Barnes
#71. Take a little time to make ordinary things extraordinary.
Emilie Barnes
#72. A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
Barnabe Barnes
#73. The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed
Simon Barnes
#74. You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate ... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal."
"I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.
John Barnes
#75. We went to Mexico, had some tequlia, eloped with a pair of drug smugglers, and took part-time jobs as exotic dancers. You know, same old, same old.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#76. I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.
Ben Barnes
#77. Is that your professional take on the situation? I kept my voice dry and caustic. This wasn't worth yelling over. It wasn't even worth a heated whisper.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#79. I didn't have any pets growing up.
Ben Barnes
#80. It is only by such extreme measures that the average man can remember something long ago; truly, not that he remembers, but that crime itself is the door to an accumulation, a way to lay hands on the shudder of a past that is still vibrating.
Djuna Barnes
#81. For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out-perhaps especially when it doesn't work out-promises that here is the thing that validates, that vindicates life.
Julian Barnes
#83. One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.
Roy Barnes
#84. Asher smiled beatifically, as if he'd been waiting his whole life for someone to ask just that question. How would you feel about some Mentos and Diet Coke?
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#85. Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.
Julian Barnes
#86. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution
Albert C. Barnes
#88. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.
Djuna Barnes
#89. Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes
#90. After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy.
Julian Barnes
#91. A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
Djuna Barnes
#92. The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.
Margaret Ayer Barnes
#93. I don't like running away," Michael; brought his eyes from the floor to mine. "I don't run, I don't hide, I don't cower, I don't beg, Cassie, because running and hiding and begging doesn't work. It never works.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#94. I had to protect him. And me. So I took everything I felt for the pack. I saw the bond, and instead of closing myself off to it, I pulled. I pulled at it and I thrust it toward Chase.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#95. Posterity will jump to conclusions: that is its nature.
Julian Barnes
#96. That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
Ben Barnes
#97. Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
Djuna Barnes
#99. In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
Julian Barnes
#100. Did you follow me here?" I asked.
Lake shrugged. "The word follow seems to suggest you got here first.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
