Barney Stinson Quotes

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

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

When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. ~ Barney Stinson

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

It's going to be legen ... wait for it ... and I hope you're not lactose-intolerant cause the second half of that word is ... dairy! ~ Barney Stinson

You know what Marshall needs to do. He needs to stop being sad. When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead. True story. ~ Barney Stinson

Destiny strips at the Melon Patch. They're people Ted, try to keep 'em straight. ~ Barney Stinson

Dude.. where's your suit? Just once, when I say "suit up" I wish you'd put on a suit. ~ Barney Stinson

Article 24: When wearing a baseball cap, a Bro may position the brim at either 12 or 6 o'clock. All other angles are reserved for rappers and the handicapped. ~ Barney Stinson

Believe it or not, I was not always as awesome as I am today ~ Barney Stinson

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

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

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

They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality. ~ 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

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

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing! ~ Selena Gomez

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

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

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 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

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

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

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes. ~ Barney Frank

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

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

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers. ~ Barney Ross

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

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

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

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

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

Party Manners IT WAS the Easter holiday. Barney and Lou were doing some painting in the dining-room ~ Clive King

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

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Valancy was perfectly happy. Some things dawn on you slowly. Some things come by lightning flashes. Valancy had had a lightning flash. She knew quite well now that she loved Barney. Yesterday she had been all her own. Now she was this man's. Yet he had done nothing - said nothing. He had not even looked at her as a woman. But that didn't matter. Nor did it matter what he was or what he had done. She loved him without any reservations. Everything in her went out wholly to him. She had no wish to stifle or disown her love. She seemed to be his so absolutely that thought apart from him - thought in which he did not predominate - was an impossibility. ~ L.M. Montgomery

We've got to be prepared to stop these guys if they ever try to use their economic power once again, to hurt the economy, and to hurt so many Americans. And my plan, Paul Krugman, Barney Frank, a lot of experts who understand what the new challenges might be, have said I am exactly on point, and the Wall Street guys actually know that. ~ Hillary Clinton

Lovers should also have their days off. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

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

If people fainted from too much thinking I'd scarcely ever be conscious," Tabitha began at once. "I think and think all the time, and I've never fainted – not once." She looked over at Barney enviously. "Why do the best things always happen to other people and not to a promising writer? ~ Margaret Mahy