Max Barry quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Max Barry

Max Barry Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Max Barry on Wise Famous Quotes.

The fact was, if you paid attention, people tried to persuade each other all the time. It was all they did.

It was funny how as soon as you knew there was something better, what you had seemed unbearable.

Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

To succeed in sales, you need skills - not skills entirely consistent with moral integrity and emotional well-being, but skills nevertheless.

A tragedy like this, we all blame ourselves.

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body.
But the possibility of a naked body is something special.

He went to rub his eyes and missed.

Everyone's broken, one way or another.

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

Body parts telegraphed complaints from faraway places.

It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.

He kissed her, because fuck it, he was probably about to die.

To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting.
There is, in fact, nothing.
And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

The newspapers said nobody made it out alive."
"Surely you didn't trust them.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

With Lola, everything was solvable. She was my independent variable.

Kikkhf fkattkx hfkixu zttkcu," she said.

I'm Australian; I know how to use a shotgun!

Stop believing what you want to believe. It's unbecoming

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

She put the words back in the envelope, because fuck doing that again.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

And I, methinks, am gone astray In trackless wastes and lone.

These tests, though, were making her feel like a moron.

Every story written is
marks upon a page
The same marks,
repeated, only
differently arranged

We attempt to conceal ourselves, Emily, but the truth is we do not entirely want to be concealed. We want to be found.

I must be the latest in a long line of freshly dismembered men to fall under the spell of Lola Shanks.

A woman appeared and began to generate tea and coffee

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

I don't know how anyone can appreciate devotion that slavish. It's not objective. I have a similar issue with religion.

She could taste loss in the back of her throat so badly that she could vomit.

A panic state is not helpful to good decision making.

Haze condensed into Campbell. The reason he was lopsided