Top 100 Barron's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Barron's kindness was like a curse, because she knew she had done nothing to deserve it.
V.E Schwab
#4. Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch.
V.E Schwab
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Laird Barron
#8. 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
#10. There is nothing like a bit of ink to bring reason to the most disordered mind.
Stephanie Barron
#11. I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.
Robert Barron
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Whether you know Jack Ryan or you don't know Jack Ryan, he's a compelling person to spend time with.
David Barron
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
Laird Barron
#22. 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
#23. When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.
Robert Barron
#24. Nostalgia, it's nothing but pain," Robert said. "It's memory poisoned by the anguish of loss.
Laird Barron
#25. 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
#26. The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.
Frank Barron
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Everyone is looking for the answer. They do not want to find the answer, trust me. Unfortunately, the answer will find them. Life - it's like one of those unpleasant nature documentaries. To be the cameraman instead of the subjects, eh?
Laird Barron
#32. And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert
and their absence keeps us grateful.
T.A. Barron
#33. When at the consecration the priest moves into the mode of first-person quotation, he is not speaking in his own person but in the person of Jesus - and that's why those words change the elements.
Robert E. Barron
#34. My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.
Carl Barron
#35. 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
#36. For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species.
David Jeremiah Barron
#37. Life's burdens may only be overcome by a summoning of inner resources: by a dependence not upon others, but upon the qualities of spirit and mind.
Stephanie Barron
#39. There's real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either.
Laird Barron
#40. During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
Laird Barron
#41. A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.
Laird Barron
#42. Autumn, like Alzheimer's, turns everything strange and unfamiliar, and when you look for the shape of the real hidden within, you find only a promise of the winter to come.
Laird Barron
#43. It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule
T.A. Barron
#44. 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
#45. Change. The more you do it, the more you don't. The farther you seek it, the nearer you find it. The less it's in your world, the more it's in you.
T.A. Barron
#46. President Bush's 'Mission Accomplished,' declaration from the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003 was not just premature, but an untruth.
Greg Barron
#47. Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.
Robert Barron
#48. Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.
Laird Barron
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones, Giants aare the island's bones. While this land our dance still knows, Varigal crowns Fincayra. Live long, live long Fincayra.
T.A. Barron
#53. You know what I like best about looking at the stars? Not the stars themselves, but all those empty spaces between the stars. That's where I can imagine traveling for ever and ever. That's where I can imagine infinity.
T.A. Barron
#54. The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.
Robert Barron
#55. 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
#56. Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable ... or make it your last.
T.A. Barron
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?
Stephanie Barron
#60. Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
Robert Barron
#61. The heart can see things invisible to the eye.
T.A. Barron
#62. It grew steadily dimmer, God's thumb on the dial.
Laird Barron
#63. Everything is connected to everything else.
T.A. Barron
#64. 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
#66. 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
#68. Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.
Laird Barron
#69. The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time
Stephanie Barron
#70. The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.
Robert Barron
#71. 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
#72. Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
T.A. Barron
#73. The deepest cavern in the world is the human heart.
Laird Barron
#74. 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
#75. The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did.
Laird Barron
#76. The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
Frank X. Barron
#77. Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.
T.A. Barron
#78. The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.
Robert Barron
#82. Take a picture of God, tack it on the wall and see who bows.
Laird Barron
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.
Robert Barron
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. The amplified ukulele music was giving me a migraine.
Laird Barron
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Eremon liked to say that hooves can make speed, while hands can make music.
T.A. Barron
#94. Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
Robert Barron
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. The subconscious is a doorway to the infinite.
Laird Barron
#98. Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
Robert Barron
#99. 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
#100. 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
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