We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she... →
Djuna Barnes
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
Julian Barnes
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one... →
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be... →
Roy Barnes
I have a normal life; I don't do anything crazy.
Courtney Barnett
I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
Samuel Barnett
We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and... →
Thomas P. M. Barnett