Barb Quotes

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism;

but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart.

As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night.

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

I was like a total cliched '80s child.

I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls...one of those.

The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados.

When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

I was big time into Barbie. I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school. As I said, I was a strange child.

I was big time into Barbie.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

Barbie is just a doll.

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic.

But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

War is the business of barbarians.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie;

and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.

Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Being a barber is about taking care of the people.

Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

War is at its best barbarism.

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

And, of course, Barbados is the other place where I like to be.

Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.

I think most people realize that Barbara and Jenna are college kids, and to make such a big deal out of it is a bit ridiculous. At least now, the press has stopped.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados;

10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.