Carol Ross Barney Quotes

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

Carol Ross Barney

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• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Business

• It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Explore

• The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hand
  • Son
  • Same

• My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Singing
  • Brother

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Sea

• I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Best

• When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Story
  • Wanted

• My son Gautham usually doesn't watch my films. But he watched 'Srimanthudu' in the theatre.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Son
  • Theatre
  • Watch

• One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • May
  • Wife
  • Moment

• My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Earth
  • Suffering

• The motivations of kings in British history can generally be reduced to two: the quest for territory and the search for a male heir. No king was secure on his throne until he had a son, and no queen consort was ever really safe without a boy.

  

  Kate Williams
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  • Son
  • Boy

• One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • God
  • Son

• We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Live
  • Country
  • Happy

• Al Roker is one of the most sensible people you'll ever meet. He's raised two daughters and a son. And I love him, in that as jovial as he is, he's a straight shooter. He's a New Yorker, as they say.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Love
  • Son

• And when you are poor and have to carryThe Christian creed and wife and childrenAll on your back, it is too much!That's why I made the Elixir of Youth,Which landed me in the jail at PeoriaBranded a swindler and a crookBy the upright Federal Judge!

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Why
  • Wife
  • Christian

• For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Son
  • Christmas
  • Gun

• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Die

• A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Funny
  • Style

• I cook some damn good eggs!

  

  Kevin Durand
  • Good

• My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

  

  Carol Ross Barney
  • Wife
  • Son
  • Brother