Barney Snaith Quotes

Good-evening, Miss Stirling.
Nothing could be more commonplace and conventional.
Any one might have said it. But Barney Snaith had a way of saying things that gave them poignancy. When he said good-evening you felt that it was a good evening and it was partly his doing that it was. Also, you felt that some of the credit was yours. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness. ~ L.M. Montgomery

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered. ~ Barney Frank

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

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

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

Our shadows are taller than ourselves. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

And she could be depressed if she wanted to be, she could sit and watch Dogs with Jobs on the National Geographic Channel and eat her way through a packet of chocolate bourbon biscuits if she felt like it because nobody cared about her. In fact, she could sit there all day, from Barney and Friends to Porn Babes Laid Bare, with hours of the Landscape Channel in between, and eat the contents of an entire biscuit factory until she was an obese, earthbound balloon whose dead and bloated body would have to be hydraulically lifted from the house by a fire crew because nobody cared. ~ Kate Atkinson

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

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

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet. ~ Barney Frank

That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons. ~ Barney Norris

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

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. ~ Barney Oliver

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth. ~ Barney Stinson

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

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

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

Lilac curled her upper lip in a dead-eyed sneer, and it made my skin crawl. The girl looked like she might fillet me and have me for a snack later. She made the Dale R. Fielding High School Cheer Squad look like Barney and Friends, and I vowed to give her a wide berth. ~ Veronica Wolff

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

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

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

Men don't know when to stop, she's told me over and over. You
have to cut them off or they'll eat 'til their bellies ache - just like a
baby or Mr. Davis's dog.
I figure all this sweet, cutesy stuff works about the same as
dessert - except if you don't cut them off from the cutesy stuff
you end up with a whole different kind of tummy ache. At any rate,
I'm pretty sure Logan Kilgore doesn't know when to quit. Case
in point, Barney Fife and the speeding ticket debacle. ~ Elizabeth Nicole

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

Finley trusts Barney's advice. Barney has never steered him wrong. ~ Uncle Amon

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

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

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration. ~ Barney Frank

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

USA has gone from Barney Fife to Barney Frank. ~ Mike Huckabee

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

Barney said that everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once. I have. More than once. ~ Morris Gleitzman

One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world. ~ Barney Norris

Could you really catch me? (Serenity)
Absolutely. Besides, Barney would have my head if I let you make a mess on the deck. (Morgan)
Oh, thanks. I'm glad chivalry is alive and well on the high seas. (Serenity) ~ Kinley MacGregor

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. ~ Barney Frank

I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda. ~ Barney Frank

I think what interests me the most is when the two things are developed at the same time, which certainly feels natural for the way of working when there is no dialogue. You sort of depend on the music to be that, especially when there's lyrics in the music. ~ Matthew Barney

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland. ~ Barney Frank