Barbarite Quotes & Sayings

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that. — Jim Harrison

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. — Jonathan Swift

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting. — Sigourney Weaver

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die. — Diana Wynne Jones

On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying Wait. — Douglas Adams

I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions. — Ben Aaronovitch

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change. — Frederick M. Vinson

No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither return it, nor value, nor understand it. — Anne Bronte

European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive. — Udo Di Fabio

Of course I am not religious - I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so. — Philip Warren Anderson

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while — Groucho Marx

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally. — Michelle Bachelet