Barren famous quotes

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold

#Criticism #Kind #Barren

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.
-- Ernest Thompson Seton

#Games #Hardship #Barren

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Lighthouse #Barren #Coast

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.
-- James Jeans

#Science #Barren #Standards

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.
-- Ken Danby

#Life #Art #Barren

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.
-- Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

#Hills #Barren #Vulture

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
-- Louis Pasteur

#Barren #Skepticism

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
-- Olaf Stapledon

#Barren

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
-- Robert E. Howard

#Men #Doors #Barren

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
-- Robert Falcon Scott

#Looks #Sometimes #Barren

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
-- Wilfred Owen

#Waste #Want #Barren