T W Barnes Quotes

#1. There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.

Julian Barnes

#2. It is only by such extreme measures that the average man can remember something long ago; truly, not that he remembers, but that crime itself is the door to an accumulation, a way to lay hands on the shudder of a past that is still vibrating.

Djuna Barnes

#3. I didn't have any pets growing up.

Ben Barnes

#4. I ain't getting on no time machine,

Marvin Barnes

#5. Is that your professional take on the situation? I kept my voice dry and caustic. This wasn't worth yelling over. It wasn't even worth a heated whisper.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#6. I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

Ben Barnes

#7. We went to Mexico, had some tequlia, eloped with a pair of drug smugglers, and took part-time jobs as exotic dancers. You know, same old, same old.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#8. 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

#9. The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

Simon Barnes

#10. A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Barnabe Barnes

#11. Take a little time to make ordinary things extraordinary.

Emilie Barnes

#12. Nobody says these things - it's against the rules - but deep inside we know that we are, each of us, unknowable and ultimately alone, even when we love. Most

Adrian Barnes

#13. I am married,' she shouted, 'to the cupboard under the sink.' A remark made more mysterious to Mrs Barnes by the sound of a passing ice-cream van playing the opening bars of the 'Blue Danube'.

Alan Bennett

#14. It is all just the universe doing its stuff, and we are the stuff it is being done to.

Julian Barnes

#15. I dressed up like a crazy pharaoh for you, man!

Troy Barnes

#16. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

Julian Barnes

#17. Making my way out of the bedroom, I found the loft empty, a visceral reminder that it had always been my sister's choice not to know me.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#18. How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.

Julian Barnes

#19. My client," the lawyer said forcefully, "is pleading the Fifth.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#20. Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

Julian Barnes

#21. The complications of life do not end at the altar; some might say that this is where they begin.

Julian Barnes

#22. The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

Simon Barnes

#23. Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

Fred Barnes

#24. For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

Djuna Barnes

#25. This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#26. But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.

Julian Barnes

#27. Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

Julian Barnes

#28. One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.

Djuna Barnes

#29. Again, I must stress that this is my reading now of what happened then. Or rather, my memory now of my reading then of what was happening at the time.

Julian Barnes

#30. People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch.

Dale Peck