J. M. Barker Quotes

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

I looked Death right in the face.

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...

Is there any good news?' Tesla

In my ArtI have butone fear:that we willfail to befearless.

Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.

I know many a strong man undone by marriage.

That's half of your trouble, " muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true.""That's because everything is, " replied Mr. Bacchus.

Let go of your daughter with grace and you'll find her calling on you with joy.

How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality?

We’re making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.

The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief.

You will make a perfectly rational mistake: You will assume that sooner or later the paradigm you are presently practicing (which has been mostly successful) will solve all the rest of your problems.

Men. Young men. Legal age, mind you. But young nonetheless. And it’s not what you think. When we meet, we make … magic.

No, the magic doesn't wear off at midnight. It's much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be.

If you want a sense of purpose for experiencing pressures, use your knowledge of Jesus Christ's comforting, enlivening, energizing presence to be a comfort to others.

Honest but gentle communication from the beginning is key.

All Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness.

Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world.

We're going to have such fun, you and I.

Living in Hell kept him aware of the possibility of Heaven, and he’d never felt more alive.

The dead have highways." Clive Barker

You’ve always got me”“Always?”“Didn’t I just say so?”“Yes”“Am I liar? ““No.” I lied.

I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I have been elected by God to do.

Religion + Good Works = Good WorksSolve for Religion.

Let's stop fighting over who we believe created the planet, & work together against those that choose to destroy it.

Only a few have learned to savor the significance of solitude. Those who can glory in being alone on occasion are the saint or poet or explorer.

The news that gives you a future with hope, in spite of your despair over the past, is realizing that Jesus has prayed for you and is praying for you now.

Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter...

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

Dream!Forge yourself and riseOut of your mind and into others.Men, be women.Fish, be flies.Girls, take beards.Sons, be your mothers.The future of the world now liesIn coral wombs behind our eyes.

We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.

But at the time, a mark of how far down the rabbit hole I had fallen, I saw it as just another tragedy I needed to stuff in the growing box in the back of my head. Shut the top and move on.

Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem.

Didn't open the box? What was it last time? Didn't know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we? - Cenobite

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

Only an incompetent mind is content to express itself incompetently.

It is a sobering thought that each of us gives his hearers and his readers a chance to look into the inner working of his mind when he speaks or writes.

A monster lies in wait in me, A stew of wounds and misery, But fiercer still in life and limb, The me that lies in wait in him.