Top 100 Barker Quotes
#1. My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me, like Danny Barker, and John Longo. And I had no idea that I would have any impact on jazz.
Wynton Marsalis
#2. I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
Patrick Ness
#3. Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.
Randy West
#4. To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band' ... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.
Quentin Tarantino
#5. Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
Hal Sparks
#6. A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Gautama Buddha
#8. Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit.
Stephen King
#9. A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
Austin O'Malley
#10. I've booked a few sessions to make it look like a genuine getaway but now I look at my programme, I wonder how to fit in murdering my mother-in-law." Cressida Barker-Powell (Criss Cross)
Caron Allan
#11. Holden's point of view: 'I didn't say anything for the rest of the trip to Barker's house. Quintus kept talking until I could feel a vein twitching in my forehead. I had never been so happy to see Baker in my life than when his house finally came into view.
Liz Schulte
#12. Holly Barker series was a great read for me. Stuart gives short chapters and continued action all through his books.
Stuart Woods
#13. small-town bankers like Justin Barker
A.W. Gray
#14. Walk the midway and hear the carnival barker.
Come see the freak named after his deceased father.
Come see the prince who wants to abdicate his throne.
Come see the son whose name is carved on a gravestone.
Sherman Alexie
#15. Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career
David Jason
#16. Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
John Major
#17. I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
B.o.B
#18. Soon after launching Sputnik in 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik II with its passenger Laika ("Barker," also known as Little Curly), the Soviet space dog. She was a female stray found on the streets of Moscow (and those godless Soviets let her die in orbit).
Lily Koppel
#19. One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.
Simon Garfield
#20. Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
Bob Barker
#21. I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.
Nnedi Okorafor
#22. I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
Sam Simon
#23. Every person living has made mistakes. Those who proceed with living never waste time licking their wounds. New ideas take them the next step of the way." ~ Raymond Charles Barker from The Power of Decision
Amber Foster
#24. Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh
Michael Palin
#25. In most houses, militiamen received no quarter. "All that we found in the houses were put to death," Lieutenant Barker said. Lieutenant McKenzie confirmed this practice.
Thomas Fleming
#26. The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29 bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.
Matt Skiba
#28. Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things.
Clive Barker, Abarat
Cornelia Funke
#29. And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.
Justin Chambers
#30. My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.
Kary Mullis
#31. Clive Barker is just genius, and he's incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well.
Scott Bakula
#32. I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.
David Bowie
#33. He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.
Bruce Forsyth
#34. Stephen King and Clive Barker can make amazing works, such people's book should be on your list.
Deyth Banger
#35. I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart.
Ronnie Corbett
#36. I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
John Cleese
#37. 'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
Patrick Lussier
#38. If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.
Ishmael Reed
#39. I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always ... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.
Guy Fieri
#40. I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in.
Arj Barker
#41. Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.
Ronnie Barker
#42. After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
Clive Barker
#44. You can get tested now for early onset Alzheimer's. Hold on a second, could someone hire a marching band, cause I'm so happy I feel like having a parade. You mean I can find out early if I'm going to die of a super horrible disease that there's no cure for? Well, whoopee!
Arj Barker
#45. A woman is a highly developed, deeply intelligent, infinitely complicated being. And it needs to be carefully tricked into doing things.
Arj Barker
#46. Gather experience ... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
Clive Barker
#47. My friend and I were up to all sorts of shenanigans at school. But one time it ended up disrupting the whole class and we got in trouble. His parents told him he wasn't allowed to hang out with me any more. I had a friendship break-up in third grade. It was brutal.
Arj Barker
#48. Prayer never changes the laws of nature.
Dan Barker
#49. My favorite memory is Tomorrow. Tomorrow's family moments are what I look forward to every day. No single favorite. Just Tomorrow.
Nigel Barker
#50. We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.
Bob Barker
#51. The only requirement of having a dream is believing in it.
Molly Barker
#52. The other day I saw a guy with a sign that said, WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY? Which freaked me out because I was on my way to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Arj Barker
#53. People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite.
Nigel Barker
#54. So small, so blue, in grassy places / My flowers raise / Their tiny faces.
Cicely Mary Barker
#55. Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.
Travis Barker
#56. Google is ridiculous. Everyone uses Google, and that's why Google has such an attitude. Because it's so popular, it's conceited. I mean, it has a serious attitude. Have you tried misspelling something lately? See the tone that it takes? 'Um, did you mean ... ?
Arj Barker
#57. My wife is a size zero and eats more than I do, and I'm a 6'4, 225 lb. man!
Nigel Barker
#58. As soon as you 'Botox' your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.
Nigel Barker
#59. Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.
Danny Barker
#60. We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.
Travis Barker
#61. I can't believe you're a professional golfer. I think you should be working at the snack bar.
Bob Barker
#62. Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she'd not noticed it until now.
Clive Barker
#63. Fear is a place where you just tell the truth
Clive Barker
#64. Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.
Pat Barker
#65. I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.
Travis Barker
#66. There is in our natures a calamitous hunger for consummation.
Clive Barker
#67. We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in front of the camera who I've ever photographed. Yes Taylor Swift has it all. My goodness that girl has it all, what can I say she's extraordinary.
Nigel Barker
#68. All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin
Clive Barker
#69. Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.
Clive Barker
#70. The wind howled in defiance as viscous clouds suffocated the moon, taking the night as their own.
J.D. Barker
#71. At some point, I realized the horrible truth - the United States and its allies could win every single battle in Afghanistan and blow up every single alleged top militant in Pakistan, but still lose this war.
Kim Barker
#72. Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts
Clive Barker
#73. I allowed an uncertain smile to cross my face, though it did so with a little reluctance, wary of being run down by some more powerful expression.
Ian Barker
#74. Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul - and she possesses many - she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.
Clive Barker
#75. It's strange, isn't it? You go on and on, or I do rather, seeing God knows what horrors and learning not to care or anyway not to care more than you need to do the job, and then something happens that gets right under your skin.
Pat Barker
#76. We made our choice, he said. We hunted for them, we guarded their brats. God knows, we helped them make a civilization, didn't we? And why?
I said I didn't know; it was beyond me. Because, he said, we thought they knew how to take care of things. How to keep the world full of meat and flowers.
Clive Barker
#78. Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.
Eric Barker
#79. Books are like people, when they are open they are red
Clive Barker
#80. We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.
Dan Barker
#81. Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.
Bob Barker
#82. I could come back tomorrow morning and see if anyone needs any pots mended." "Oh, they will," Morinen said. "People always drop things. I wish I had a pair of stockings for every dish I've broken." The
Emily Croy Barker
#83. I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .
Clive Barker
#84. I will treat you with my knife the way you've treated my pages with your merciless eyes. Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards.
Clive Barker
#85. I wish I were not sensual... I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp and be grasped, because it drives me into the arms of idiots who want to crush me. Wonderful, idiotic, crushing in the night. Can't you just crush me in the night?
Howard Barker
#86. Be strong, little mother," she said to Melissa. "I know you can be." "Yes?" Melissa said a little doubtfully.
Clive Barker
#87. You think I'm finished, so you're leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country.
Clive Barker
#88. Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.
Clive Barker
#90. It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.
Dan Barker
#91. What do the good know?' he said. 'Except what the bad teach them by their excesses?
Clive Barker
#92. Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.
Clive Barker
#93. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker
#94. When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.
Travis Barker
#95. Everywhere, in the wreckage around him, he found evidence to support the same bitter thesis: that he had encountered nothing in his life - no person, no state of mind or body - he wanted sufficiently to suffer even passing discomfort for.
Clive Barker
#96. Is there any good news?' Tesla said.
Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?
Clive Barker
#98. He'd fill every moment with the seasons he'd found in his heart: hopes like birds on a spring branch; happiness like a warm summer sun; magic like the rising mists of autumn. And best of all, love; love enough for a thousand Christmases.
Clive Barker
#99. First, my love and thanks to Ben Smith, my Hollywood agent, who has been a true visionary in a job that is often maligned (in this book, for instance)
Clive Barker
#100. I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.
Travis Barker
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