Barbee Quotes & Sayings

I'll lock thy heaven from thee.
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! — William Shakespeare

Barbee had always wondered about mental institutions. He thought of taking notes for a feature story on this adventure at Glennhaven, as the evening wore on, began to seem remarkable for utter lack of anything noteworthy. It began to appear as a fragile never-never land, populated with timid souls in continual retreat from the real world outside and even from one another within. — Jack Williamson

I don't care who you were.
I don't care who you are and I am more concerned with who you're working to become. — Baylor Barbee

I wonder if the real measure of "home" is the degree to which you can leave it alone. Maybe appreciating a house means knowing when to stop decorating. Maybe you've never really lived there until you've thrown its broken pieces in the garbage. Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part. The hard part is what's right in front of you. The hard part is learning how to hold the title to your very existence, to own not only property, but also your life. The hard part is learning not just how to be but mastering the nearly impossible art of how to be at home. — Meghan Daum

Do you have any bald ice cream? — Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

What Promise of a new day does one have to ignore to laugh so early in the morning? — Leot Felton

You know why there were only 220 Mexicans at the Alamo? They only had one car. — Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles with spiritual and ethical questions about the meaning and proper conduct of our lives. The facts of nature simply cannot dictate correct moral behavior or spiritual meaning. — Stephen Jay Gould

I see the rodeo's in town again. — Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

The only thing they recognize is a buffet — Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

So that no bad day should last forever, we sacrifice all those we wish would never end. — Leot Felton

There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for. — Bauvard

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks. — Peter Lynch

Barbee had wondered about insanity, sometimes with a brooding dread - for his own father, whom he scarcely remembered, had died in the forbidding stone pile of the state asylum. He had vaguely supposed that a mental breakdown must be somehow strange and thrilling, with an exciting conflict of horrible depression and wild elation. But perhaps it was more often like this, just a baffled apathetic retreat from problems grown too difficult to solve. — Jack Williamson

The Barbarian's shoes are Hair Jordans — Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is. — Jack Lemmon

Hurrying on, Barbee nodded to the workman as casually as he could. His skin felt goose-pimpled under the thin red robe, and he couldn't help shivering to a colder chill than he felt in the frosty air. For the quiet city, it seemed to him, was only a veil of painted illusion. Its air of sleepy peace concealed brooding horror, too frightful for sane minds to dwell upon. Even the cheery bricklayer with the lunch pail might - just might - be the monstrous Child of Night. — Jack Williamson

A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't. — Glenn Danzig

Could it be that goodness waxes and wanes like the moon, and that only evil is constant? — Alan Bradley

I wonder-?" whispered April Bell, her long eyes narrowed and dark. "I wonder what they really found?"

"Whatever it is," breathed Barbee, "the find doesn't seem to have made them very happy. A fundamentalist might think they had stumbled into hell."

"No," the girl said, "men aren't that much afraid of hell. — Jack Williamson

It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day. — H. Jon Benjamin

When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient. — Dick Costolo

No matter what sort of difficulties you must endure and no matter hiw painful your experiences, you must not lose hope. Losing faith is the only thing that can truely distroy you. To conquer yourself and your weaknesses are a greater triumph than to conquer thousands in battle. — Colleen Houck

So it is with the concerto of our lives. Individual notes must be learned and played and practiced before we achieve harmony. And above all, we must learn how to pause. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Hey, he speaks pretty well for a guy who just ate 2 lbs of crackers. — Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.