Lynn Barber famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.
-- Lynn Barber

#Iron #Oil #Giving
What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.
-- Lynn Barber

#Parent #Wanted
I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.
-- Lynn Barber

#Lying #Believe #Thinking
But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).
-- Lynn Barber

#Long #Likes #Opinion
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
-- Lynn Barber

#Race #Biographies #Interviews
I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
-- Lynn Barber

#Mean #Selfishness #Care
I just think I'm fairly aggressive.
-- Lynn Barber

#Thinking #Aggressive

Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.
And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. ... I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Lynn Barber famous quotes

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