Robert H. Barrow Quotes

#1. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.

Robert Krulwich

#2. Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.

Truman Capote

#3. I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal. It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer, "Well, we read it and it makes no sense." SLAM.

Philip K. Dick

#4. It was completely impossible to box with her. She had only one style, which we called Terminator Mode. She would try to nail her opponent, and it didn't matter if it was just a warm-up of friendly sparring.

Stieg Larsson

#5. Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.

Robert H. Barrow

#6. Life after death. Sex after marriage. While claims are made for the existence of both, the sources are oftentimes unreliable and the evidence, at best, anecdotal.

J.D. Lexx

#7. Dust everywhere ... and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I'd ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my feet.

Marie Lu

#8. No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.

Jason Giambi

#9. Hand-barrow - a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. I cannot here give references and authorities for my several statements; and I must trust to the reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy.

Charles Darwin

#11. Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.

Nicholas Hoult

#12. Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

Lucretius

#14. How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Woody Allen