Felstead Barrett Quotes

Dreams can lose their way and turn up on the wrong side of sleep. ~ A. Igoni Barrett

It seemed as if nothing were to break that tie - as if the years were merely to compact and cement it; and as if those years were to be all the years of their natural lives. Eighteen-forty-two turned into eighteen-forty-three; eighteen-forty-three into eighteen- forty-four; eighteen-forty-four into eighteen-forty-five. Flush was no longer a puppy; he was a dog of four or five; he was a dog in the full prime of life - and still Miss Barrett lay on her sofa in Wimpole Street and still Flush lay on the sofa at her feet. Miss Barrett's life was the life of "a bird in its cage." She sometimes kept the house for weeks at a time, and when she left it, it was only for an hour or two, to drive to a shop in a carriage, or to be wheeled to Regent's Park in a bath-chair. The Barretts never left London. Mr. Barrett, the seven brothers, the two sisters, the butler, Wilson and the maids, Catiline, Folly, Miss Barrett and Flush all went on living at 50 Wimpole Street, eating in the dining-room, sleeping in the bedrooms, smoking in the study, cooking in the kitchen, carrying hot-water cans and emptying the slops from January to December. The chair-covers became slightly soiled; the carpets slightly worn; coal dust, mud, soot, fog, vapours of cigar smoke and wine and meat accumulated in crevices, in cracks, in fabrics, on the tops of picture-frames, in the scrolls of carvings. And the ivy that hung over Miss Barrett's bedroom window flourished; its green curtain became thicker and thicker, ~ Virginia Woolf

When faith is full, it dares to express its anger, for faith is the openness of the whole man toward his God, and therefore must be able to encompass all human modes of being. ~ William Barrett

Good-bye Holmes. It ... hasn't really been a pleasure. But thank you for the information. Be careful to keep out of prison. Unless you want an upgrade to your current living conditions, then I wish you the best. ~ Zechariah Barrett

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life. ~ William Barrett

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time. ~ Syd Barrett

If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras. ~ Jacinda Barrett

I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way. ~ Jacinda Barrett

With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow. ~ Tom Barrett

...and what exactly is a joke.... ~ Syd Barrett

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher. ~ Syd Barrett

But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

People who go to jail breed people who go to jail. ~ Andrew Barrett

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers? ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better. ~ Barrett Tillman

I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree ...
Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood
I will not have my thoughts instead of thee
Who art dearer, better! ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. ~ Lawrence Barrett

her actions taught me white people can't really
get it unless they are
the hero ~ Kay Ulanday Barrett

Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker. ~ Barrett Foa

It is easier to be than to become. ~ A. Igoni Barrett

She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, which was not life at all
(But that she had not lived enough to know) ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it. ~ Syd Barrett

I feel an obligation toward God to be as honest as I can. I'm human, sir, and I'll admit the Truth can be painful at times, and even a little elusive, but... as best as I can, I must speak the Truth and address things as they are. I don't feel I have any right to take the Truth and cut it up, rearrange it, select what I want and delete what I want just so it'll align with my politics or my Accounting Department." - John Barrett Jr. ~ Frank E. Peretti

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. ~ Ethel Barrett

A harmless life, she called a virtuous life,
A quiet life, which was not life at all ... ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Why, conquering
May prove as lordly and complete a thing
In lifting upward, as in crushing low!
And as a vanquished soldier yields his sword
To one who lifts him from the bloody earth,
Even so, Belovëd, I at last record,
Here ends my strife. If thou invite me forth,
I rise above abasement at the word.
Make thy love larger to enlarge my worth! ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,
And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep
and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,
the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself
sublimely helpless and impotent
I had done living I thought
Was ever life so like death before? My face was so close against the tombstones,
that there seemed no room for tears. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But I can't find anybody. That's the problem. I don't know
where they are. I mean, I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going
to play properly, I should need some really good people. ~ Syd Barrett

The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness. ~ Andrea Barrett

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? ~ Dorothy Fields

Truth outlives pain, as the soul does life. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced ... Zooommmmm. ~ Joe Royle

No separation of distance; no separation of time; no separation of any kind need lessen compassion. ~ Zechariah Barrett

Eyes of gentianellas azure,
Staring, winking at the skies. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature. ~ William Barrett

He thought back but Bianca, her foot heavy on the accelerator, thought away. From Rose, their mother, their entire past, books and papers and stories and sorrows: let it sink into the ocean. She had her wallet and her sleeping bag and her running shoes and her van; and she drove as if this were the point from which the rest of her life might begin. ~ Andrea Barrett

I have done most of my talking by post of late years
as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning