Bernard Barton Quotes

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

Bernard Barton

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• That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Giving

• In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Best
  • Others

• Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Training
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I don't really know much about cars.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Know
  • Really
  • About

• I learned how to handle myself in the kitchen - where to stand and how to be out of people's way and how to function like a machine.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • People
  • Myself
  • Kitchen

• The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Music
  • Learning

• I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • American
  • Might
  • Filmmaker

• I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Music
  • Daughter
  • Boots

• Si nec blanda satis, nec erit tibi comis amanti,Perfer et obdura: postmodo mitis erit.Flectitur obsequio curvatus ab arbore ramus:Frangis, si vires experiere tuas.Obsequio tranantur aquae: nec vincere possisFlumina, si contra, quam rapit unda, nates.

  

  Ovid

• I don't even have an E-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Age
  • Purpose

• How cruelly sweet are the echoes that startWhen memory plays an old tune on the heart!

  

  Eliza Cook
  • Heart
  • Sweet

• I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Fun
  • Feminist

• The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • True
  • Reality

• We are now committed to an unqualified art, not illustrating outworn myths or contemporary alibis. One must accept total responsibility for what he executes. And the measure of his greatness will be in the depth of his insight and his courage in realizing his own vision.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Art
  • Responsibility
  • Vision

• 'I thought debate was supposed to be healthy,' she countered.'It is,' Auger replied, 'so long as you don’t disagree with me.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Long
  • She

• Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted. Man’s only right is to do his duty. The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • God
  • Heart
  • Humanity

• 'Happy Valley' has really changed things for me.

  

  James Norton
  • Happy

• I love to dance, so I'm definitely always the first one out on the dance floor. And when it comes to guys, I don't get shy. So if I wasn't with a date, I wouldn't have a problem going up to a guy and just saying, 'Are you gonna dance with me?' Trust me, it'll work for you too! Guys like it when you aren't afraid to make the first move.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Guy

• But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • Success
  • Son
  • Daughter

• Anything that's slightly dangerous and gets the heart rate going is my kind of workout.

  

  Ellen Hollman
  • Heart
  • Workout

• As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

  

  Bernard Barton