E. J. W. Barber Quotes

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Music chooses her musicians.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness.

The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

I love the sea with its impenetrable fathoms, its wash and undertow, and rasp of shingle sucked anew.

There's no such thing as a coincidence in a prayer chapel.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

Clean plates don't lie.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.