Top 100 Barron Quotes
#1. Barron and Paul ... rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments ... Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility.
Noam Chomsky
#2. I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.
Holly Black
#3. She wants me to take out Patton."
Barron's brows draw together. "Take out? As in transform him?"
"No," I say. "As in take out to dinner. She thinks we'd make a good couple.
Holly Black
#4. I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.
Ben Stein
#5. My husband and I are big givers to charity, and we are teaching our son Barron all about giving his old toys away to children who might not have any.
Melania Trump
#6. Barron's kindness was like a curse, because she knew she had done nothing to deserve it.
V.E Schwab
#7. Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch.
V.E Schwab
#8. When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right ones a fighting chance- Victoria Barron- dedicated attorney and protagonist of Misplaced
SL Hulen
#9. Barron's stuck teaching me. It's supposed to be just for a few months, until I graduate from Wallingford. Let's see if we can stand each other that long.
Holly Black
#10. Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.
Holly Black
#11. I can't help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I'm already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming.
I think she figured I was joking.
Holly Black
#12. When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.
Daniella Alonso
#13. It's hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He's smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.
Holly Black
#14. You have a skill. You can do something no one else can," Barron says. "Seriously. You know what's good about that? It's valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I said it was wasted on you? I was so right.
Holly Black
#15. She's an old lady," Barron says. "And she's been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.
Holly Black
#16. Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality
Norman Spinrad
#17. We are not called "human stagnates." We are called human beings, persons in process, persons involved in the act and art of actually shaping or reshaping ourselves, or working to understand what Frank Barron calls the "patterns within diversity.
Sandra A. Thomson
#18. And Barron is probably right - we should give this up. Not for the reason he's saying but for the one that's implied. The one about it not being okay to lurk around outside buildings, spying on girls you like.
Holly Black
#19. Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.
T.A. Barron
#20. The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
Frank X. Barron
#21. The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did.
Laird Barron
#22. The deepest cavern in the world is the human heart.
Laird Barron
#23. Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
T.A. Barron
#24. Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the stony earth.
Laird Barron
#25. The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.
Robert Barron
#26. The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time
Stephanie Barron
#27. Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.
Laird Barron
#29. The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.
Robert Barron
#31. The world, however bleak I have found it in the last few weeks, must nonetheless be formed of goodness, if but a few moments in Nature's company may suffice to renew one's health and mental aspect.
Stephanie Barron
#32. Everything is connected to everything else.
T.A. Barron
#33. It grew steadily dimmer, God's thumb on the dial.
Laird Barron
#34. The heart can see things invisible to the eye.
T.A. Barron
#35. Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
Robert Barron
#36. Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?
Stephanie Barron
#37. The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors ... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.
Robert Barron
#38. My constellations are not made from the stars, but from the spaces between the stars. The dark places. The open places, where your mind can travel forever and ever.
T.A. Barron
#39. Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable ... or make it your last.
T.A. Barron
#40. I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.
Laird Barron
#41. The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood was one of desolation and peace, a glorious past recalled, and now thankfully put to rest.
Stephanie Barron
#42. You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.
Clarence W. Barron
#43. Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".
Bishop Robert Barron
#44. Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
Robert Barron
#45. The subconscious is a doorway to the infinite.
Laird Barron
#46. Neither light nor heat could withstand it; to gaze into that nullity and to comprehend its scope was to have one's humanity snuffed. Only the inhuman thrived in out there in deep black.
Laird Barron
#47. I am abroad in the night with my servants. We come to smoke the northern lights, to rape the Wendigo, to melt igloos with streams of hot, bloody piss. To see and see."
"Oh. You're a bit east.
Laird Barron
#48. Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
Robert Barron
#49. Eremon liked to say that hooves can make speed, while hands can make music.
T.A. Barron
#50. Submission doesn't mean weakness; it means exploring your wants and desires and being strong enough to give control of yourself to someone else.
Melinda Barron
#51. The long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the stiff hedges to fall at the feet of a stone nymph, her cascade of water frozen in her urn.
Stephanie Barron
#52. The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.
Robert Barron
#53. Arthur said, "Let's be cool and not get busted. I advise rest and relaxation, and definitely a bath. You guys smell like booze and cheap whores."
Dred sniffed. "He's right. We do. Woof.
Laird Barron
#54. On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering
Frank X. Barron
#55. Money was a problem. Money was always a problem no matter how many bones he crushed or how much blood he let or dues he paid. The fucking rent was always due.
Laird Barron
#56. Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.
Robert Barron
#57. I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.
Charles Barron
#58. The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.
Robert Barron
#59. Take a picture of God, tack it on the wall and see who bows.
Laird Barron
#63. The amplified ukulele music was giving me a migraine.
Laird Barron
#64. The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.
Frank Barron
#65. Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.
T.A. Barron
#66. Always remember that with privilege comes responsibility. You must go to Casa Azul and see the place you came from. Only then will you be able to understand how far you've come.
Sandra Rodriguez Barron
#67. The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Frank Barron
#68. The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.
Frank Barron
#69. My family, as always, is very supportive. My teenagers, Ben and Nina, had so little interest in interacting with me that it freed up time to work on the book.
Barron H. Lerner
#70. Nostalgia, it's nothing but pain," Robert said. "It's memory poisoned by the anguish of loss.
Laird Barron
#71. When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.
Robert Barron
#72. And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues ...
T.A. Barron
#73. My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
Laird Barron
#74. What is an individual? Just a bit of life shot off from the one Life in the universe-just a bit of love and truth dropped on this globe, just as the globe itself was once a bit of light and heat dropped from the sun.
Clarence W. Barron
#75. It's about walking, or crawling as the case may be, through this messy existence with eyes open. It's about squeezing a fistful of shit and praying for a diamond.
Laird Barron
#76. Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Laird Barron
#78. There is nothing like a bit of ink to bring reason to the most disordered mind.
Stephanie Barron
#79. I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.
Robert Barron
#81. The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.
Robert Barron
#82. Robert Service once said dying is easy, it's the keeping on living that's hard, and of course the poet was on the money, as poets usually are when it comes to smugly self-evident affirmations.
Laird Barron
#83. For they were the stuff of nightmares; maggoty abominations possessed of incalculable and vile intellect that donned flesh and spines of men and beasts to shield themselves from the sun and enable themselves to walk upright instead of merely slithering.
Laird Barron
#84. Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up.
Laird Barron
#85. Reality was a makeshift prop, an amalgamation of agreed-upon conjecture, a consensus of self-limiting parameters and paradigms made palatable by endless speculation fueled by madness and hope and no mean amount of good dope.
Laird Barron
#86. Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!
T.A. Barron
#87. Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.
Robert Barron
#88. What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good or ill. If humans can live in harmony with other forms of life, the world rejoices. If not, the world suffers
and may not survive.
T.A. Barron
#89. The elder Navarro had believed, as did the ancient philosophers of the Far East, that the cosmos ultimately revealed itself as a repeating pattern, an infinitely replicating superstructure contained and embodied in a galaxy, down to a drop of blood.
Laird Barron
#90. Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true.
Robert Barron
#91. This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.
Sandra Rodriguez Barron
#92. The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.
Laird Barron
#93. Whether you know Jack Ryan or you don't know Jack Ryan, he's a compelling person to spend time with.
David Barron
#94. Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
Laird Barron
#95. In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.
Robert Barron
#96. Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.
Frank X. Barron
#97. ...I'm severely allergic to unsolicited monologue performances in public. While they don't cause sneezing or hives, when exposed, I do experience extreme and immediate vaginal dryness.
Sara Barron
#98. I hate dates. I sit at home all day, and I don't fart once. I go on a date and I've got twenty in the bank straight away.
Carl Barron
#100. One rotation that I unexpectedly enjoyed was surgery. I knew I was too clumsy to become a surgeon and did not have the traditional gung-ho mentality.
Barron H. Lerner
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