Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery ...
JULIAN BARNES A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die...
BARNABE BARNES Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
BARNABE BARNES We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankfu...
ALBERT BARNES Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
ALBERT BARNES The Psalms are selected by the Christian from the whole Bible, as they were by the Jew from the book...
ALBERT BARNES The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire...
ALBERT BARNES It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It ...
ALBERT BARNES A 'disorderly walk' denotes conduct that is in any way contrary to the rules of Christ. The word wou...
ALBERT BARNES Whatever be the topic of conversation, the spirit of piety should be diffused through it - as the sa...
ALBERT BARNES Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter b...
DJUNA BARNES To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though...
JULIAN BARNES And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.
JULIAN BARNES Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.
JULIAN BARNES We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the...
DJUNA BARNES Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thu...
DJUNA BARNES The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the...
DJUNA BARNES The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
DJUNA BARNES Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that
JULIAN BARNES Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
DJUNA BARNES Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold?
BARNABE BARNES One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's danci...
CLIVE BARNES An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
DJUNA BARNES Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex
JULIAN BARNES A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
DJUNA BARNES Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and enti...
CLIVE BARNES To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic s...
JULIAN BARNES We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
DJUNA BARNES A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
DJUNA BARNES We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to ...
ROY BARNES Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we a...
JULIAN BARNES I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, jus...
BEN BARNES The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
DJUNA BARNES We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the fil...
BEN BARNES Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.
ROY BARNES When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years ...
BEN BARNES Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees ...
JULIAN BARNES True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for th...
DEBORAH BARNES I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which r...
BEN BARNES Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obedi...
JULIAN BARNES Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are wil...
FRED BARNES You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you...
BEN BARNES It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice wha...
JULIAN BARNES What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
JULIAN BARNES The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
DJUNA BARNES How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l...
JULIAN BARNES In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Re...
ROY BARNES It's level with the ground. It has to be granite and it must be of 24 inches by 12 inches and it mus...
BRUCE BARNES We didn't make our free throws. It's pretty simple. We didn't convert at the free-throw line - that'...
BRUCE BARNES I don't have the answer. I wish I did, because I would have used it. He's a good coach and has them ...
BRUCE BARNES It was a pretty typical Carson-Douglas match. It doesn't matter who's the better team, it always com...
BRUCE BARNES This is football country. The only reason your parents had you was so you could play football.
BRUCE BARNES I had some anxious moments as the ball rolled on the rim for a second.
BRUCE BARNES That was a great read by Adam. He made the right decision and found Zach at just the right time. I f...
BRUCE BARNES We ran our spread offense to Adam. He can do what he wants with the ball. We had Zach (Weismann) and...
BRUCE BARNES This is big for our kids' confidence. This rivalry is important to our kids. A lot of the kids on bo...
BRUCE BARNES They're all big (games remaining). They're all league games. We're on the road again. We have to bou...
BRUCE BARNES As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfe...
ROY BARNES You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshe...
JULIAN BARNES There are certain things we have to do, so we have to be ready to pay for it. We can't send a whole ...
BRIAN BARNES In one season, the number of cartons rejected for export because of fruit fly damage has halved from...
BRIAN BARNES If I were a drug trafficker, I'd choose this place.
BRIAN BARNES We don't believe making replicas is the same as repairing the structures.
BRIAN BARNES Some time ago, we had shown schematically where we could put a wall,
BRIAN BARNES The biggest thing for us, like always, will be blocking up front, ... We've changed a few things and...
BRIAN BARNES This almost starts a new season, ... We've had our preseason and now we're going to the real season....
BRIAN BARNES Somebody has got to win,
BRIAN BARNES Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence.
"There is much I don't understand....
JOHN BARNES ... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teach...
JOHN BARNES We have been doing golf packaging for about 15 years. It's taken awhile to cultivate our business, b...
BOB BARNES As we move forward with this technology, we should expect to see costs go down and roller capabiliti...
BOB BARNES I knew instantly he was the right choice.
BOB BARNES We are excited to be in the Austin market. We think this is a healthy long-term addition for our ban...
BOB BARNES The 4A side has a lot of parity. The backdoor guys will mean everything. That's where the tournament...
BRENT BARNES Almost every year, it's what happens in the consolations that determines the eventual team champion....
BRENT BARNES We didn't wrestle as well as we could have. But this is a good tournament, good competition.
BRENT BARNES If we're going to make a run at Battle Ground, we're going to need all our guys stepping up Saturday...
BRENT BARNES We had a good run in the second quarter, but they got a breakaway at the buzzer.
BILLY BARNES We were OK once we started getting the ball inside.
BILLY BARNES It gives them more incentive to come up here and drive legally without being a citizen.
BILLY BARNES Consistency and quality of coaching has been a big part of our success.
BILLY BARNES You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm af...
JULIAN BARNES I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent.
ROBERT BARNES Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and enti...
CLIVE BARNES The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been de...
FRED BARNES What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
DJUNA BARNES There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
LEONARD BARNES I LIKE ads. It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't like ads when they are out of place.
BILL BARNES The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, vicious...
JULIAN BARNES And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find A wife I need not blush...
WILLIAM BARNES Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's...
WILLIAM BARNES Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.
ROY BARNES Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subt...
JULIAN BARNES Can I ask you something personal?”

Six inches but I tell everyone eight.
JOHN BARNES When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
JULIAN BARNES Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven...
BEN BARNES And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - ...
ROY BARNES What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordin...
ROY BARNES I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in ...
BEN BARNES If you expect a refund, file early.
STEPHEN BARNES President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands ho...
FRED BARNES Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards i...
JULIAN BARNES It benefits from its nine-person cast, superb from top to bottom, and, let's face it, expectations s...
CLIVE BARNES After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that g...
ROY BARNES Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, th...
JULIAN BARNES Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. 'I reject the view that says our problems will sim...
FRED BARNES The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
JULIAN BARNES The room was too warm, with the sort of cat-barf-beige carpet that has been standard for meeting roo...
JOHN BARNES The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th...
JULIAN BARNES You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin...
JULIAN BARNES Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES The secret of happiness is to be happy already
JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly
JULIAN BARNES Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
JULIAN BARNES That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hu...
BEN BARNES I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I w...
BEN BARNES It's really about relationships. The core activities ? the swimming pool, the tower ? those are fun ...
ALLY BARNES They learn how to make friends. That's something that you just assume everybody knows how to do, but...
ALLY BARNES She did it four more times that same week of camp. She's just a whiz on our tower now.
ALLY BARNES We're a very capable team. We've beaten some good teams this year, but we've lost to a few that we p...
ROOSEVELT BARNES My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian....
BEN BARNES Once you take the hide off, you can't tell the difference between (boar) and pork.
TIM BARNES By reaching the Final Four, George Mason is going through something we all dreamed about back in 198...
RICK BARNES Its been a crazy ride. A couple of tournaments ago I wasn't even supposed to be here. But I got a Ma...
CHRIS BARNES In the second half, I was really proud of our kids. I thought we played with a lot of character and ...
LEONARD BARNES When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in ...
JULIAN BARNES We had a bow and arrow at 6 and a BB gun at 7.
TRACY BARNES The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.
JULIAN BARNES By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a f...
ROY BARNES What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possibl...
JULIAN BARNES But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were ...
ROBERT BARNES Everybody's been super, super supportive of us trying to get everything together.
AMY BARNES This is a special thing that we're getting to do despite the storm. Prom is a big thing that everyon...
AMY BARNES We've had a lot less time and lot fewer re-sources. We're kind of having to make do with what we hav...
AMY BARNES I've had some good fortune in this building. It's always challenging. The two sides (upstairs and do...
CHRIS BARNES This morning we took Celestial Gold down to Exeter racecourse along with a few youngsters for an ear...
CHESTER BARNES You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliber...
JOHN BARNES It appears he went on a little rampage in the showroom.
MATT BARNES I think it's a nice mix of people. I really think that this year's group shows the range of journali...
BETH BARNES I always recommend that students study abroad because it is important to experience and immerse your...
BETH BARNES Our goal for the course is to understand that there are differences in professional practice between...
BETH BARNES The students will be looking at how advertising and public relations are practiced in London, and th...
BETH BARNES What you eat standing up doesn't count
BETH BARNES You've got to mix things up, especially with the short kicking game from league. I'm not going to ov...
BERRICK BARNES Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But ...
JULIAN BARNES I'm not going to get crushed. I may bend, I may lean over, but I'm not going to fall.
ROD BARNES There have been fatalities,
ROBERT BARNES The Salvation Army and the Red Cross are having a big impact here, as well as the faith-based organi...
ROBERT BARNES If you have to consider that, you can't afford a boat.
ROBERT BARNES They are a bunch of good people. Unfortunately, they got caught up in it.
ROBERT BARNES You know who you can know, and you know who you can like, and there are affinities that are expresse...
ROBERT BARNES But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were ...
ROBERT BARNES It was terrible on dates, because I could never eat when I was on a date.
ROBERT BARNES This is important, because mild cognitive impairment often precedes dementia.
DEBORAH BARNES We don't have a choice. If we want to win the championship we have to try and get maximum points... ...
BARRY BARNES We know that after last year, the other teams know all about Manchester and they are coming for us. ...
BARRY BARNES Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not par...
JULIAN BARNES Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the bette...
JULIAN BARNES Tonight we kind of experimented a bit. We put a totally different setup on the car. It just didn't g...
MIKE BARNES Our love is for the pioneers. It's a humbling experience to know that they were here. It helps us to...
CAROL BARNES She'd had a similar accident but survived. She told me that as she was crashing she felt no fear or ...
CAROL BARNES Customers who score high propensity are typically approximately two-and-a-half times more likely to ...
TIM BARNES (According to those who drove the slave ship), if we lose 25 to 50 percent of 'cargo,' we could make...
MICHAEL BARNES It was scary, but my rational for not taking a timeout before that, even though my assistant coaches...
NICK BARNES Sam's got a few tricks up his sleeve. He's a real competitor so it's good to have him there. Same wi...
BERRICK BARNES Santa Cruz was not so friendly, but Watsonville was.
JEFF BARNES That form is very freeing, ... It's a great relief for the novelist not to have to be there in the w...
JULIAN BARNES It bled quite profusely,
KEN BARNES We had a couple of times when our guys could have squeezed off shots when they chose not to. We've g...
ROD BARNES We won three in a row, we lost three in a row and we can very easily win three in a row again. What ...
ROD BARNES It was a gut-wrenching game. The way West Virginia fought to the end, I'd like to congratulate them ...
RICK BARNES The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down ...
JULIAN BARNES Improved consumer choice and improved airline profits represent a win/win situation. Airlines that p...
CHRIS BARNES People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these bein...
JULIAN BARNES It means we are going to have to contend with stronger opposition consistently and we are going to h...
BARRY BARNES At first he seems like one of those laid-back, type-B personalities but that's just a disguise. Unde...
MARTY BARNES New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical Amer...
DJUNA BARNES Now that was a funky course. You could get some wild bounces at that place.
RICKY BARNES The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the st...
CLIVE BARNES Everything is cleaner. Everything is dressed up. It's a better atmosphere, where it's not so dingy a...
MIKE BARNES I think he had a quite sort of ambiguous relationship to Holmes. It made him rich, it made him famou...
JULIAN BARNES Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else -- and must not a waiter be a...
DJUNA BARNES I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat.
DJUNA BARNES We attract a young, hip, active, energetic customer base, and that development seems to be attuned t...
CHRIS BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly
JULIAN BARNES He'll go down to me as one of the quietest, toughest guys in our league. To me, he's the player of t...
ROD BARNES Dialogue more tame than Wilde.
CLIVE BARNES I think it was a great program, ... It was one of the things I'm proudest of.
ROY BARNES You can steal more with a briefcase than you can with a gun,
ROY BARNES It's not a question of slowing. It's a question of making sure that we can grow in an orderly fashio...
ROY BARNES [Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, who ordered state and U.S. flags in Georgia flown at half-staff, called Co...
ROY BARNES We are one people forever woven together in a tapestry, ... And it is our job, our duty and our grea...
ROY BARNES Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride,Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .
WILLIAM BARNES The city defeated him. It refused to be bent into shape; it stayed a willful, sprawling, sinful plac...
JONATHAN BARNES I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes bey...
JULIAN BARNES People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how...
JOHN BARNES Amanda Leonard of Marquette just joined the team this week. She's a high jumper. I saw her jumping i...
TOM BARNES History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequac...
JULIAN BARNES It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we i...
JULIAN BARNES