Barney Quotes

The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It starred my Saint Bernard Barney, and it was a killer thriller with oodles of special effects that were cutting edge for the time. ~ Les Claypool

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

Dear Oscar

I don't know how to say this any other way but, you see, I need to explain something. I can't stop thinking about that night when you rescued Barney with you tart – and how good and kind I realise you've always been. It wasn't until this morning when you sent me an apple tart of my own that I finally knew what it is that I have to tell you.
The timing is pretty terrible, but, you see, the reason I haven't wanted to go away is because I've wanted to stay here, and the reason I've wanted to stay here is because of you.
I've nothing against New Zealand or anything but because of how I feel, specifically about you, the whole world looks different.
I don't know whether it's because of everything has got darker or lighter. I guess that depends on how you feel about me which is, I hope, the same.
So anyways, look, you've convinced me that I should, as you say 'embrace the adventure' so that is what I have decided to do. It was the taste of you apple tart that finally made up my mind to give this my all. But I need to know you'll be here when I come back.
I love you Oscar Dunleavy.
I've been falling in love with you since that day we first met.
I need to have some idea about whether you feel the same way about me. Send me a sign.
Anything will do.
Love,
Meg ~ Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own. ~ Barney Frank

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

Because we're framily. You know, I love you, you love me? Like Barney only with bad language. ~ Dakota Cassidy

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. ~ Barney Frank

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world. ~ George Harrison

Every girl's dream is to have two hot guys having a bit of a barney over you. ~ Lenora Crichlow

Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity ~ Barney Kessel

Come on, Jack. Be reasonable. Let's run this up the chain of command."
"Acker will never approve, and even if he does, we would have to deal with some Barney Fife type cop up in Manistee, and he would never agree. I'm screwed either way."
"Who's Barney Fife?"
"He's an old television character…oh…never mind . . . ~ Mark M. Bello

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. ~ Barney Frank

When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful! ~ Barney Saltzberg

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value. ~ Barney Frank

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about. ~ Barney Frank

Daily deeds determine destiny's. ~ Barney Matthews

I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals. ~ Barney Frank

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence ~ Barney Kessel

Roots like an oak tree, Barney." He ~ Dean Koontz

Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad, disillusioned, or gratified? I have been trying the single, vertically shot portrait with my 8 x 10 since 1985 and never felt I succeeded in finding what I was looking for. ~ Tina Barney

In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists. ~ Barney Frank

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country. ~ Barney Frank

You looked like you wanted to jump his bones right there!"
"Jump his bones?" Sadie frowns. "What do you mean?"
... "It's like a pajama party. Except you take off your pajamas."
"Oh that." Her face clicks with recognition. You call it 'jumping his bones'?"
"Sometimes." I shrug.
"What an odd phrase. We used to call it sex."
"Oh." I say, discomfited. "Well we do too-"
"Or barney-mugging," she adds. ~ Sophie Kinsella

I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court. ~ Barney Frank

From 1961 to 1965 Barney and I had not seen another UFO. ~ Betty Hill

When she lowers her eyes she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them I see only myself in her gaze. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife. ~ Martin Short

Does getting closer to the subject make the photograph more intimate? I'm sure it takes more than that. What comes next? The face, the nude? That's what I'd love to do. Who would even let me do that? ~ Tina Barney

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential. ~ Barney Frank

FASTER - don't talk down to the audience, take us for a spin, don't spell everything out for us, we're as smart as you - assume we can keep up; FUNNIER - entertain us, help us see how ridiculous and beautiful life can be, give us a reason to feel better about our flaws; LOUDER - deliver the story in the appropriate size, DON'T be indulgent or keep it to yourself, be generous - you're there to reach US." Barney takes a few gulps of air and beats his fist just once on his chest. "There you go, my dear. It might SOUND simple, but if I know you, you'll spend your life dedicated to getting it right. And that's it, my dear. THAT'S the whole banana. ~ Lauren Graham

Ted, I believe you and I met for a reason. It's like the universe was saying, Hey Barney, there's this dude, he's pretty cool, but it is your job to make him awesome ~ Barney Stinson

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law. ~ Barney Frank

I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!' ~ Anita O'Day

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance. ~ Barney Oliver

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency. ~ Barney Frank

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed. ~ Barney Frank

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion. ~ Barney Frank

Somewhere he can shelter,' he said, whispering and wheezing a bit, but not slowing for a second. 'Somewhere he can get warm, and where no one can find him. Don't mess it up, Barney. This boy is falling. You must catch him. ~ Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

Barney Bigard's clarinet, ~ Haruki Murakami

I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost. ~ Bill Watterson

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth. ~ Barney Frank

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships. ~ Barney Ross

Maybe I should go put on my ragged white dress and stone necklace and you can put on your leopard skin tunic and we can pedal in our stone car to the roadhouse before you go bowling with Barney and I go shopping with Betty, Fred. –Sadie ~ Kristen Ashley

Article 2: A Bro is always entitled to do something stupid, as long as the rest of his Bros are all doing it. ~ Barney Stinson

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. ~ Barney Frank

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers. ~ Barney Ross

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun. ~ Barney Ross

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair ... which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. ~ Barney Oliver

I had an action figure that did that," Graham nodded. "I tried to use it on my mum, once. Got me in no end of Barney. ~ G. Norman Lippert

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. ~ Barney Ross

No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages. ~ Thomas Sowell

Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice. ~ Barney Frank

If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech, ~ Barney Rosset

By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months. ~ Betty Hill

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government. ~ Barney Frank

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans. ~ Barney Frank

Doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying. ~ Barney Frank

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be. ~ Barney Oliver

Are―you dying?" she asked.
"Just can't breathe. This air."
"Poor, poor―good lord. I've forgotten your name."
"Hell of a thing."
"Barney!"
He clutched her.
"No! Don't stop!" She arched her back. Her teeth chattered.
"I wasn't going to," he said.
"Oooaugh!"
He laughed.
"Don't please laugh at me."
"Not meant unkindly."
A long silence, then. Then, "Oof. ~ Philip K. Dick

To be married is to be neither alone nor together. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy. ~ Barney Frank

If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode. ~ Ben Horowitz

The regulation of medicine has been a State function. ~ Barney Frank

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball. ~ Barney Rosset

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that. ~ Matthew Barney

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans. ~ Barney Frank

He signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing ~ Barney Kessel

Southern racists were able to protect murderers only because their legislators exploited fears of centralized power. ~ Barney Frank

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80! ~ Barney Kessel

If I Had The Chance I'd Do It All Over Again. ~ Courtney Taylor Barney

We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's make the tax code of America better for very rich people; let's give substantial tax relief to the richest people we can find. Forget about the person making $40,000 a year and paying Social Security payroll tax. Forget about all those other people paying income tax; we're here to give tax relief to the richest 2% of America. ~ Barney Frank

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

Greetings, O Great Gazoo. How nice of you to join us here on planet Earth again. (Cael)
Thanks, Barney. How's Betty and Bam Bam doing? (Acheron)
Great, if I could only get them away from Wilma and Pebbles. Those women are nothing but trouble. (Cael)
Nah, they're good women. It's the ones in red who are always the downfall of good men. (Acheron) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

The most active people in the country know different things, and because each one tends to hear mostly and deal mostly with people with whom they agree, they are reinforced not simply in the conviction that they are right, which is totally appropriate, but that they are the majority. So you have both sides, the Left and the Right, thinking that the majority of the country is really with them. ~ Barney Frank

From that night on, wherever Barney and I went UFOs paced us. ~ Betty Hill

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing? ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything? ~ Barney Frank

There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~ Barney Frank

I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things. ~ Barney Frank

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

When I let a day go by without talking you..... That day is just no good. ~ Barney Stinson

I'm antisocial - there's no question about it. ~ Barney Frank

These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis, ~ Barney Frank

The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable. ~ Barney Norris

I hear. Nobody thinks so. But I do. Sometimes people whisper. Sometimes they yell. Sometimes they say mean things. I see more than the TV. It's my friend. I don't have any others, like the kids on Barney do. Why are people afraid of me? I don't want to hurt them. I taste only the sweet air, whooshed through tubes to help me breathe. If I'm lucky a bit of flavor comes with the wind or skin or clothes I smell. I wish my mouth would let me tell Mama I love her. Let me tell Daddy I ms him. Let me tell Shane how good I feel when I see him happy with Alex. I like when I swim because when I float, I am free. I like when I sleep because I dance when I dream. I hear, I see, I taste, I smell, I feel, I dream. ~ Ellen Hopkins

Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed both in these superb and long-neglected translations for Negro and elsewhere in his work. ~ Barney Rosset

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. ~ Barney Oliver

Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his tail off, he was a heck of an arranger and could out-read anybody ... ~ Larry Coryell

To Live With No Memories Of Fun Is As If You Never Lived. ~ Courtney Barney