Quotes of: Barren Keyword

People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as others, the misconception is not true. It is definitely not a thriving community in Detroit, but it is getting there. There is a lot of heart and love i...

Steven Yeun

As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.

Temple Grandin

I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.

Lorde

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

Melvin Calvin

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

Ellen G. White

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

Robert Falcon Scott

Petra is a brilliant display of man's artistry in turning barren rock into a majestic wonder.

Love

She made the ground a canvas and transformed the dusty barren land into a beautiful painting ever

With You

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Samuel Daniel

The seeming legitimacy that existed in mind a second earlier vaporized before they could be carried out, leaving the air barren.

Pavitraa Parthasarathy

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

Marguerite Duras

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Quintilian

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.

Dagon

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.

Behind the Hospital

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Her sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape.

Legend

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

The Secret Sharer

It seemed as if at least a moment some spring had burst forth in his barren soul.

Reconciliation