My Barber Quotes

#1. In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

Michael Caine

#2. The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#3. I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it.

Tim Conway

#4. I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!

Sean Patrick Thomas

#5. Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked at me - I think by now I had dropped the bat to my side, at least, though I must have looked ridiculous anyway - and he raised his eyebrows. 'Get back in the house, Babe Ruth.

William Landay

#6. I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#7. I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

Alan Moore

#8. For reliable information, apply to a lawyer, a barber or prostitute. My informant hasn't found out so far who paid the captain.' 'But she will,' said Margaret, her face grave. 'I hope so,' he said with equal gravity,

Dorothy Dunnett

#9. My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

Paul O'Grady

#10. Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole.

Wesley Willis

#11. From two niches (to use Barber's word), North and South, we've splintered into hundreds of thousands, a nation of tribes connected not by kinship or even creed. We're merely tethered together by the Internet, by our brand loyalties and shared consumer obsessions.

Lisa Samson

#12. Since you (US "drug tsar" McCaffrey) control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year, is asking people like you if we should continue with our nation's current drug policy like a person asking a barber if one needs a haircut?

James P. Gray

#13. Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

Kate Smith

#14. Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

Edsger Dijkstra

#15. No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

Abraham Verghese

#16. A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, In silence.

Plutarch

#17. My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.

Helene D. Gayle

#18. And then you rushed off afterward because of that business with the barber in Gleam Street." "Sweeney Jones," said Vimes. "Well, he was killing people, Sybil. The best you could say is that he didn't mean to. He was just very bad at shaving -

Terry Pratchett

#19. My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber's chair the day before my girlfriend's funeral.

Timothy C. Ward

#20. I love hats. On tour, it's difficult to stop in at a barber. It's good to have a hat nearby.

OMI

#21. I must to the barber's, mounsieur; for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me I must scratch.

William Shakespeare

#22. My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

Donald Johanson