Quotes About John Barnes

#1. 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

#2. Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

Julian Barnes

#3. It was now so much a part of him, that it could not have been torn from him without destroying him almost entirely: as they say in surgery, his love was no longer operable.

Marcel Proust

#4. Can I ask you something personal?
Six inches but I tell everyone eight.

John Barnes

#5. There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.

John Barnes

#6. I guess when life hands you lemons, chop 'em up and get lemonade; when life hands you cats, chop 'em up and get pussy.

John Barnes

#7. I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.

John Barnes

#8. Don't underrate ordinary human decency," Josh said quietly. "There's more of heaven in a guy who hands a cold soda to a hot, tired panhandler than there is in fifty moral philosophers.

John Barnes

#9. I wondered if they got to enjoy being normal, to know just how terrific it was, or whether it was just invisible to them like air?

John Barnes

#10. I used to like doing karaoke until cell-phone cameras came along.

Fred Schneider

#11. I've got ten thousand ducks quacking and waddling, with one deluded chicken that thinks it's a duck in the middle. I think it's a flock of ducks; Cam thinks it's a malign conspiracy of chickens.

John Barnes

#12. Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.

John Barnes

#13. Romney sounds like he wants to be the nice uncle in a sitcom, Santorum sounds like he wants to be a twelfth-century archbishop, Gingrich sounds like he wants to go to outer space, and Paul sounds like he came from there.

John Barnes

#14. Supposedly nobody outside the group knew there was a group. Of course we all knew that wasn't true. High school was like the little clear plastic tunnels that Paul's hamsters lived in: you could run a long way but never get out, and always, everyone could see you.

John Barnes

#15. I looked at the people playing, walking, loafing, hurrying, or sauntering across the little park in front of us. How many terrible stories were there, just there in front of me, never to be spoken?

John Barnes

#16. If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.

John Barnes

#17. If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing,

John Barnes

#18. We have dumbed down what it means to be part of the church so much that it means almost nothing, even to people who already say they are part of the church.

Stephen W. Smith

#19. I think everyone always has time to suffer.

John Barnes

#20. Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.

John Barnes

#21. Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.

John Barnes

#22. After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before ...

Doris Lessing

#23. Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#24. The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#25. So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could understand how there were ever divorces, or even fights.

John Barnes

#26. Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence.
"There is much I don't understand."
"That will never change," Mortis said decisively. "Except that what you don't understand will change.

John Barnes

#27. People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don't much care about how well it works, just about how right it is ... they may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.

John Barnes

#28. Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.

Harry Mathews

#29. I've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

John Barnes

#30. In the light of the crappy little lamp, all I was looking at was a frizzy mop of blonde hair and a bare back with one big angry red patch on it, but Jesus fucking God she was beautiful, and if you don't understand that, I'm sorry for you.

John Barnes

#31. Future Farmers of America. Group who take ag classes and are going to inherit the farm. Hot shit around here, they have a couple guys in every clique, and they stick together, 'cause they know they'll be seeing each other every week for the next sixty years.

John Barnes

#32. It wasn't that funny, but I laughed. There wouldn't be much laughter in the world if people didn't like each other, because there sure as shit aren't that many good jokes.

John Barnes

#33. 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