Lynn Barber Quotes

#1. My giving is discretionary, but keeping the business going is not.

Michael Hintze

#2. To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.

Domenico Cieri

#3. While von Clausewitz said, 'War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means,' when considering the welfare of our men and women in uniform, their families, our veterans and survivors, don't let politics drive your decisions.

Joe Heck

#4. I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

Lynn Barber

#5. The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

Lynn Barber

#6. I'm never exactly a slave to facts at the best of times. But does it matter? Who owns memories after all?

Lynn Barber

#7. But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages
you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change (135).

Lynn Barber

#8. We never listen when we are eager to speak.

Louise Von Francois

#9. Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

Zubin Mehta

#10. I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

Lynn Barber

#11. If I could communicate only by words on a page, how much more satisfactory I would be!

Lynn Barber

#12. I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

Lynn Barber

#13. I probably loved him as best as I knew how.

Steve Brezenoff

#14. What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

Lynn Barber

#15. Society has become so obsessed with sex that it seeps from all the pores of our national life.

Billy Graham

#16. Faith is a torment, did you know that? It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.

Ingmar Bergman

#17. I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

Lynn Barber

#18. That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

Oscar Wilde

#19. The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Albert Einstein

#20. People say you shouldn't marry for looks but I disagree: if I tot up all the pleasure I got from looking at David over the years I'd say it amounted to a very substantial hill of beans.

Lynn Barber