Top 100 Barker's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Within the modeling industry, there's no doubt that there are some girls out there that are too thin. But there are also girls who are genetically slim and can eat like a horse.
Nigel Barker
#4. A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
Austin O'Malley
#5. Once in a while, I'll slip and get off my vegan diet and have egg whites in the morning, that's a good source of protein while I'm out on the road. If I can feel my body starting to tire, those are good to keep you healthy.
Travis Barker
#6. I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital ... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.
Travis Barker
#7. The un-people, the anti-tribe, humanity's sack unpicked and sewn together again with the moon inside.
Clive Barker
#8. From then on the improvement was dramatic, though still the conversations with the dead friend continued, until one morning he awoke crying, and realized he was crying, not only for his own loss but also for his friend's, for the unloved years.
Pat Barker
#9. Nothing's perfect... because time passes... and the beetle and the worm find their way into everything sooner or later.
Clive Barker
#10. I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.
Travis Barker
#11. As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.
Clive Barker
#12. That's not fair!"
"Life's not fair, Kaspar. You know that. You had a slave for - how long?"
"Twelve years."
"Did you treat him 'fairly'? No, of course not. You beat him when you were in a bad mood, because it made you feel better, and when you felt better you beat him some more.
Clive Barker
#13. But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Ronnie Barker
#14. The only problem I see is that you're as stubborn as a mule, but I'm sure I'll find a way to whip that right out of you." "Literally or figuratively?" "That's entirely up to your pain tolerance.
Kira Barker
#15. It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.
Travis Barker
#16. Zombies are the ideal late twentieth-century monsters. A zombie is the one thing you can't deal with. It survives anything. Frankenstein's monster and Dracula could be sent down in so many ways. Zombies, though, fall outside all this. You can't argue with them. They just keep coming at you.
Clive Barker
#17. ... there's nothing in the world more fun than doing something you're good at.
Clive Barker
#18. Nobody can ever learn our military's secrets - unless, you know, they happen to have the Discovery Channel. Then, it's pretty easy, just tune in for a few minutes.
Arj Barker
#19. That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
Pat Barker
#20. But she felt as though whatever she'd been given in the Devil's Country it was affecting her mind, not her body, and it was not doing anything remotely healing. Quite the reverse.
Clive Barker
#21. The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.
Clive Barker
#22. I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.
Clive Barker
#23. To be able to fly ? To be smoke , or a wolf ;to know the night , and live in it forever ? That's not so bad . You call us monsters . But when you dream it's of flying , and changing , and living without death .
Clive Barker
#24. And later we'll have action from the men's cockles pairs.
Sue Barker
#25. I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
Howard Barker
#26. It's all part of the dance, she thought; the dust, her hands, the light that was spiraling around her: it's all part of the same wonderful dance. And I'm in it.
Clive Barker
#27. Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now
in this bright, laughing moment
and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.
Clive Barker
#28. I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
Clive Barker
#29. I think putting your relationship out there for people to interpret and have their own opinion about, I think it's crazy.
Travis Barker
#30. Can you hear me, Todd? There's an ambulance on its way." For a moment his eyes opened a little wider, and he seemed to be making an effort to concentrate on the face in front of him. "It's Maxine," she said. "Remember me?
Clive Barker
#31. My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
Pat Barker
#32. I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
Pat Barker
#33. I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.
Nnedi Okorafor
#34. So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell begin to ring.
Clive Barker
#35. You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.
Clive Barker
#36. Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.'
But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.
Clive Barker
#37. Here is a list of terrible things,
The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings
The rabid bite of the dogs of war,
The voice of one who went before,
But most of all the mirror's gaze,
Which counts us out our numbered days.
Clive Barker
#38. Well, she's lucky. She still has her little dominion here in Coldheart Canyon.
Clive Barker
#39. They had a leader. Some rebel. Shite! I don't remember his name. You know me and names. He was a dickhead and everybody says so. And old Bitch Tits kicked him down here. He started some rebellion." "Lucifer?" "That's the one. Lucifer. They prayed to Lucifer.
Clive Barker
#40. Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or nothing I'm afraid.
That's all I've got left to tell you see: tears, tears, tears.
Clive Barker
#41. Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into her pocket for emergencies - you never knew when you might need a book to entertain and comfort and distract you in the day's empty places
Emily Croy Barker
#42. Someone who is comfortable, someone who is happy, you see them immediately sit up, stand up and feel better about themselves. If you're able to capture that in a picture, that's the most beautiful picture you can ever take of someone.
Nigel Barker
#43. I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy.
Travis Barker
#44. I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and ... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen
Pat Barker
#45. Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
Pat Barker
#46. Three is the number of those who do holy work;
Two is the number of those who do lover's work;
One is the number of those who do perfect evil
Or perfect good.
Clive Barker
#47. Of course. Remember, I've seen you in her. And it's wonderful.
Clive Barker
#48. My general rule of thumb is, once something's a ride at Disneyland, I assume that it is no longer a threat in real life. Which is why I don't expect to get attacked by a giant tea cup anytime soon.
Arj Barker
#49. There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.
Clive Barker
#50. Let's stop fighting over who we believe created the planet, work together against those that choose to destroy it.
Jack Barker
#51. In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
Travis Barker
#52. 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
#53. Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader's heart.
Clive Barker
#54. That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true."
"That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus.
Clive Barker
#55. Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.
Clive Barker
#56. It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.
Dan Barker
#57. The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.
Clive Barker
#58. Does the beef salute the butcher as it throbs to it's knees?
Clive Barker
#59. Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed upstairs and looked out the landing window, there
hanging between the bare branches of the trees
was a moon as wide and as white as a dead man's smile.
Clive Barker
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. It's only when you've lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that
phrase "It's a small world". It isn't. It's a vast, devouring world, especially if you're alone.
Clive Barker
#66. All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin
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. 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
#69. Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.
Pat Barker
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. My favorite memory is Tomorrow. Tomorrow's family moments are what I look forward to every day. No single favorite. Just Tomorrow.
Nigel Barker
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.
Travis Barker
#78. If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
Dan Barker
#79. I certainly knew from an early age ... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.
Clive Barker
#80. He gave a moment's consideration to the possibility of lingering to wash his face and hands (maybe even to changing his puke-splattered shirt), but he decided to forgo cleanliness in favor of making a fast exit.
Clive Barker
#81. Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics.
Pat Barker
#82. Even if the world was falling apart, that was no reason to let his appearance and good habits fall apart with it.
S.R. Ford
#83. People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.
Dan Barker
#84. I had him in my cab once.
Who? Neville asked
Rupert Brooke. He was good, him. "There's some corner of a foreign field/ That is forever England".
That would be the bit with my nose under it; just fucking drive, will you?
Pat Barker
#85. Then we realized that your Kind like to make laws. Like to decree what's what, and whether it's good or not. And the world, being a loving thing, and not wishing to disappoint you or distress you, indulges you. Behaves as though your doctrines are in some way absolute.
Clive Barker
#86. I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better than their English is.
Arj Barker
#87. It's gotten to the point where I think my friends would rather hang out with their own kids than hang out with me. And I'm like, "Alright, but where's the loyalty, man. I've known you for twenty-five years. How long have you known your baby, like, a month?"
Arj Barker
#88. I'm trying to feel terrified and alone. And regret every decision I've ever made, drenched in a cold sweat. It's called going to sleep. Maybe you've heard of it.
Arj Barker
#89. The sight of her had pierced him, making her the enterer, had she but known it, and him the entered. Perhaps she had known, on reflection. Perhaps she'd fled from his passivity, from his ease beneath the spike of her beauty. If so, he would undo her revulsion with tonight's business. Here,
Clive Barker
#90. Fathers remain opaque to their sons, he thought, largely because the sons find it so hard to believe that there's anything in the father worth seeing. Until he's dead, and it's too late. Mercifully, doctors are also opaque to their patients.
Pat Barker
#91. I'm not afraid," he said. "What's the use of fear? You can't buy it or sell it, you can't make love to it. You can't even wear it if they strip off your shirt and you're cold.
Clive Barker
#92. There's almost an element of selfies that is like photo therapy. People look upon themselves in a picture and then they critique themselves without knowing so, and that's what's happening on mass on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
Nigel Barker
#93. I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
Travis Barker
#94. That's fucked," he remarked, sounding a damn sight less nonchalant than he felt.
Clive Barker
#95. 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
#96. I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have ... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
Bob Barker
#97. Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists.
Susan Barker
#98. I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.
Travis Barker
#99. There's nothing heroic about sacrificing yourself for him," Zeffer pointed out. "He wouldn't do it for you." "I know that.
Clive Barker
#100. I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.
Clive Barker
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