Truism Quote by Simon Barnes Download Open image “It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.” — Simon Barnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Truism
“If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.” — Robert Kroetsch Copy Share Image
If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Culture is invited to the table usually only as raw material that needs no analysis. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
There's no point in dwelling on the controversies created by others. — Javier Zanetti Copy Share Image
Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something no other… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama. — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is. — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly. — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has done a… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
