Barred Quotes
57 quotes by 52 authors
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A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up…
— Jack Abramoff
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Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and…
— Jacques Monod
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A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she wants and goes…
— Bruce Jenner
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Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write…
— Groucho Marx
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The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at…
— Konrad Lorenz
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Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression…
— Camille Paglia
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All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders…
— Nelson Mandela
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If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of…
— H. L. Mencken
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I have a great story to tell and I tell it well. No holds barred.
— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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Johnny Ramone's autobiography is a no holds barred, straight-forward book written in a no-nonsense style that is Johnny personified. His story is written in his…
— Tommy Ramone
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Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public,…
— Douglas Adams
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All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
— Nathalie Sarraute
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Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five…
— Jonathan Swift
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If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name…
— Isabel Paterson
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You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned or lowly their…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug…
— Jared Diamond
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Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred-other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one…
— Glenn Greenwald
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The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.
— Dana Stabenow
Who Wrote These Barred Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 57 Barred Quotes, led by these top contributors: