Barlow Quotes

Wear a mask long enough and they grow with your skin. Try to take it off and you bleed. ~ Tom Barlow

It seemed Paris somehow managed to absorb all the beautiful things the rest of the world discarded; it was a sparkling and bejeweled box of lost treasures, a wondrous cabinet that hummed with soft horn harmonies played against a grand piano's minor chords. ~ Toby Barlow

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair. ~ John Perry Barlow

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. ~ John Perry Barlow

The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual. ~ John Perry Barlow

Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale. ~ Maude Barlow

Blood, fat, marrow, grease, sinew, muscle, guts, hide, fur, sleep
They may twitch in their dreams when they sleep
but they sleep deep ~ Toby Barlow

friends, and, of course," - he glanced toward their sleeping daughter - "the love of a father and mother for their child. All these taken together, with all the joy and pain that they confer - that can save us, surely. Love of life, Alix. You have it. And since I've found you, so do I. ~ Linda Barlow

There in that embrace, she feels something
shuffling around, moving warily
fumbling through the dusty rooms of her heart,
and, one by one, turning on the lights ~ Toby Barlow

It is the oldest and most simple curse on earth, and when properly applied, no cure can be found. Some might call it love. ~ Toby Barlow

It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed. ~ Joel Barlow

I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does. ~ Gary Barlow

Paine and Joel Barlow attempted to change Jefferson's mind, urging him to settle thrifty German immigrants in the new lands and to permit black families to travel from other states to acquire their own land there, but the sugar interest triumphed, ~ Christopher Hitchens

Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide. ~ Maude Barlow

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. ~ John Perry Barlow

Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs ... ~ John Perry Barlow

The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy. ~ John Perry Barlow

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. ~ John Perry Barlow

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. ~ John Perry Barlow

And in this simple moment, I suddenly began to wonder if perhaps we shake hands with God in agreement to the lives we live, before we are ever born. ~ L.C. Barlow

He remembered that these imaginary conversations always began the same way, with the same phrase, the words he believed lay at the core of what any human being ever wants to hear from another, what affection is in its primary essence, what the bonds of friendship and family mean above all else. So he placed his hand gently on Bemm's shoulder and, softly, slowly, spoke the phrase, over and over again, as if it were a prayer, I am so glad you are here. ~ Toby Barlow

the first responsibility of a human
being is to be a better ancestor. ~ John Perry Barlow

Tears are God's way of cleansing the heart. ~ Rebecca Barlow Jordan

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. ~ John Perry Barlow

This is all we are at our best, he thought, tiny instances accumulating up into a greater whole. There is noting magnificent in this world, he thought, that is not born from an act so slight as to go wholly unnoticed. We must be especially attentive to see them, and to remember to perform them, he thought, yes, that is the crux: we must simply pay attention. ~ Toby Barlow

I'm secretly hoping for the full five. ~ Gary Barlow

How anybody in town could think me a murderer when I couldn't even throw a stray out into the rain, I cannot fathom. ~ Linda Barlow

It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience. ~ John Perry Barlow

Some things should stay mysteries," said Metzli. "The moon would not be the same moon, if one side did not remain in the dark. ~ Linda Barlow

I'm not having sex with you. Not willingly. If you starve me, strangle me, whip me or tie me to the bed, it'll be rape, which you said you wouldn't do. I draw the line at fucking a psycho kidnapping dickwad who makes me strip, kneel, crawl and call him Master. ~ Linda Barlow

She suspected Oliver only wanted some token acknowledgment that despite her moving on, their exchange had not been completely superficial. She found even the most cavalier sorts still hated to let things pass completely unspoken. Everyone wanted to put a meaning to things. ~ Toby Barlow

Due to a combination of dispositional characteristics and personal performance histories, functional performers typically expect positive performance outcomes, and dysfunctional performers typically expect negative performance outcomes. Over time, these beliefs become strongly held and difficult to change. In addition, these belief sets can become self-fulfilling because they affect how the performer interprets challenge or threat in performance situations (Sbrocco & Barlow, 1996). For ~ Frank Gardner

You either trust or you distrust coincidence. It 's either small doses of magic pulling you to your appointed destiny or the devil trying to lead you down to the thorns. ~ Toby Barlow

The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History ~ Maude Barlow

I make it a policy never to appear surprised - Dr Barlow ~ Scott Westerfeld

The stratosphere is my church. ~ John Perry Barlow

There are no such things as angels, I thought to myself as I walked that path. There is only Cyrus, those who follow him, and those who sneak around him. Everything is a backwards dealing, a script where errors are miracles, and corrections are only a bullet away.

As for good works, they are dangerous and impossible. Only the likes of demons can successfully complete them, and they know not wholly what they do. ~ L.C. Barlow

There are two things that make
the conscious world move,
decision and desire. ~ Toby Barlow

The heart is a bloody thing. ~ Toby Barlow

I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms. ~ John Perry Barlow

Call him Judas if you want
but he did it for reasons
much older than silver. ~ Toby Barlow

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business. ~ John Perry Barlow

The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry. ~ John Perry Barlow

Let's just say I haven't been keeping up the Gary Barlow persona; I've let loose. ~ Liam Payne

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts. ~ Joel Barlow

I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know. ~ John Perry Barlow

God sometimes moves mountains one pebble at a time. ~ Rebecca Barlow Jordan

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops. ~ John Perry Barlow

She killed her sons first. Hammering a long fence nail through each of their hearts. Then, taking an ax, she methodically beheaded each one of her brothers-in-law. Going out to the pens, she drove the livestock into the barn, bolting it shut, and while the goat kids and spring lambs panicked and brayed, she put all the buildings to flame. ~ Toby Barlow

I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding. ~ Joel Barlow

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other. ~ John Perry Barlow

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips. ~ Scott Westerfeld

If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer. ~ John Perry Barlow

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book! ~ Gary Barlow

Each dog marks a section of our lives, and in the end, we feed them to the dark, burying them there while we carry on. ~ Toby Barlow

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. ~ John Perry Barlow

Like so much of the trouble in the world
it ends simply with exhaustion. ~ Toby Barlow

Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on to the next pleasure. Miss Barlow liked her life to be a steady movement towards pleasure. While she was having one, she was thinking about the next and what she should wear while she had that. ~ Stella Gibbons

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat. ~ John Perry Barlow

Fred would walk across broken glass for Siren. ~ C.S. Woolley

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. ~ Joel Barlow

Sad to see a man's faith fail,the vampire Kurt Barlow had said, and then he'd plucked Don Callahan's dark and useless cross from his hand. Why had he been able to do that? Because - behold the paradox, consider the riddle - Father Callahanhad failed to throw the cross away himself. Because he had failed to accept that the cross was nothing but one symbol of a far greater power, one that ran like a river beneath the universe, perhaps beneath a thousand universes - I need no symbol ~ Stephen King

If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then ... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build. ~ John Perry Barlow

White supremacy is the societal excrement that fertilizes racial disparities in America. It distorts the reality of historical and present day factors that create the staggering racial inequality that exists today. ~ James A. Barlow

We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time. ~ Gary Barlow

I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit. ~ Gary Barlow

We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us. ~ Gary Barlow

information is simultaneously a relationship,
an action, and an area of shared mind. What it isn't is a noun.
Information is not a thing. It isn't an object. It isn't something that,
when you sell it or have it stolen, ceases to remain in your possession. It
doesn't have a market value that can be objectively determined. ~ John Perry Barlow

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. ~ John Perry Barlow

The theory is simple.
Every boy, every man, is really
a bit of a golden retriever
or a big chocolate Lab.
Watch any man's eyes
at the bounce of a ball.
His head tilts slightly sideways, just a hair,
as a primitive focus
comes to life. ~ Toby Barlow

I may be going to hell in a bucket Babe, at least I'm enjoying the ride. ~ John Perry Barlow

It's about the ability to make better decisions and take meaningful actions at the right time. It's about detecting fraud while someone is swiping a credit card, or triggering an offer while a shopper is standing on a checkout line, or placing an ad on a website while someone is reading a specific article. It's about combining and analyzing data so you can take the right action, at the right time, and at the right place. ~ Mike Barlow

I'll deal with whomever's in there while Tristan finds Nancy and gets her out."
"Hey, why am I stuck with Nancy?" Tristan asked.
"Because you're better with women than I am."
"Tristan's better with women than both of us put together," Victor said dryly. "And Max."
Tristan rolled his eyes. "Fine. I suppose that's a workable plan, since I can't imagine that Barlow has more than one extra fellow in there. It's not as if he's dealing with the likes of my bold wife. Zoe might attempt an escape out a window, but I doubt Nancy would."
"True," Dom said. ~ Sabrina Jeffries

The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse. ~ Joel Barlow

She tried to avoid his gaze but he held her steady and would not look away, Finally her eyes spoke to him. Her eyes said, Words are too weak, too small, they are always too small, even the purest and most simple phrases fail. Her eyes said, Look at who you are, you were asleep when I met you, but now you're awake, so stay awake. I did not need you and I did not want you and yet here you are, awake in my body and in my heart. ~ Toby Barlow

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum. ~ John Perry Barlow

We will always come against people who don't like our books. People who think what we're doing this trivial or cliché or tries too hard. But there will always be people who love what we do and we have to take those good moments to heart. ~ Duncan B. Barlow

That's what love does/ It chases the dragons away/ before their claws can sink in. ~ Toby Barlow

Monkeys
What! His partner said.
Monkeys are funny, said Peabody.'So why didn't we we pick monkeys.
His partner sighed and shook his head with sad dismay.
Monkeys? Jesus.
Monkeys' idea of fun is throwing their shit at you. Monkeys always take the joke a step too far. ~ Toby Barlow

Snuffy and the Bull is one of several short stories from a time in our history which has been woven into the quilt of America and found within the eclectic tapestry of our culture. ~ Regine' Ivory-Barlow

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ~ John Perry Barlow

I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance. ~ John Barlow

The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state. ~ John Perry Barlow

TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I've ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob. ~ John Perry Barlow

The more you've got, the shorter it feels. ~ John Perry Barlow

Music, Take That and what we do is not real life. It's magical.
As soon as you begin to believe it the magic will disappear. ~ Gary Barlow

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves. ~ Gary Barlow

Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony ~ John Perry Barlow

This is so much better than the 60's. So much less self indulgent and desperate. What you have here is a large group of people trying to practice unconditional love for strangers, and for the most part, succeeding. ~ John Perry Barlow

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas. ~ Gary Barlow

Immediately he surprised her, for she like the way he kissed, like a man who wanted to swallow life. ~ Toby Barlow

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ~ John Perry Barlow

Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business. ~ John Perry Barlow

The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind. ~ Maude Barlow

And were you cornered by her,
eye to eye,
you would see that
there are still some watchful creatures
whose essence lies unbound by words.
There is still a wilderness. ~ Toby Barlow

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. ~ John Perry Barlow

Detective Virgil and Barlow [bomb-technician] arranged to meet at the Starbucks. Virgil got a grande hot chocolate, no-fat milk, no foam, no whipped cream, and Barlow got a venti latte with an extra shot. As they took a corner table, Virgil said, "Remind me not to stand next to you if you're handling a bomb. That much caffeine, you gotta be shakin' like a hundred-dollar belly dancer."
"At least I'm not drinking like a little girl," Barlow said. ~ John Sandford

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have. ~ Gary Barlow

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. ~ John Perry Barlow

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue. ~ R. H. Barlow