Top 100 Barks Quotes

#1. If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood.

Nicholas Culpeper

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#2. The voice gets to the soul of a person more than any other instrument. Because it's the voice. It sings talks, it cries, it laughs, it squeals, it barks, it shouts it whispers, There is no other instrument that can do that. We're born with it.

Bobby McFerrin

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#3. You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.

Windston Churchill

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#4. The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free.

Marty Rubin

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#5. There's an Arabian proverb that says if you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.

John C. Maxwell

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#6. Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Minna Antrim

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#7. The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

Dan Rather

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#8. If a dog barks at the sun, it does not dim the sun's brightness. (44)

Padma Venkatraman

Barks Quotes #220867
#9. Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream.

Mercedes Lackey

Barks Quotes #244180
#10. Take gets beamed back to our servers and skimmed by an algorithm reader, which is a piece of software that's maybe as smart as a puppy. It sits up and barks when something really unusual happens in its field of vision.

Warren Ellis

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#11. And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will dash themselves against the cliffs. One sails alone. That is my ship. It sails into icy caverns where the sea-bear barks and stalactites swing green chains.

Virginia Woolf

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#12. Well, you do have all those gray hairs." I point to the few silver strands coming through.
"They're not gray," Mom barks at me as she opens her door. "They're strands of glittery goodness.

Margaret McHeyzer

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#13. Hey
jazz hands!" Kenji barks. "Get your ass back over here." He makes it a point to look as irritated as possible. "Back to work. And this time, focus. You're not an ape. Don't just throw your shit everywhere.

Tahereh Mafi

Barks Quotes #358298
#14. Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks.

Phyllis Diller

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#15. Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#16. The Western public should learn and remember one essential thing about China: no matter what European and North American propaganda barks about the People's Republic, China is much more "democratic" than the West. It is democratic in its own way.

Andre Vltchek

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#17. No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed How far these beauties hers exceed! Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found.

Andrew Marvell

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#18. A yellow dog barks at him from behind a chain-link fence, all possessive ferocity and no damn balls. Just like the gang-banger kids. They think a pistol equals cojones. That's why they tuck them into their pants.

Lauren Beukes

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#19. A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

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#20. Poo" Manchee barks quielty to himself. "Poo, poo, poo."
"Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.

Patrick Ness

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#21. What's the point of fighting the dollars
when all you need is a warm bed?
When the dog barks you let him in.
All we need is someone to let us in.
And one other thing:
to consider the lilies in the field.

Anne Sexton

Barks Quotes #528777
#22. Only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird.

Bob Marley

Barks Quotes #542217
#23. The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use.

Nicholas Culpeper

Barks Quotes #568623
#24. He barks out a laugh. "My little rebel.

R.L. LaFevers

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#25. An old dog barks not in vain.

George Herbert

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#26. We were, to quote the proverb,
The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something ...

David Mitchell

Barks Quotes #679199
#27. After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.

Robert McCammon

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#28. Dusty rarely barks, but did she ever send up a clamor now, barking like there was no tomorrow.

Will Hobbs

Barks Quotes #810199
#29. There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile,it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.

Gillian Flynn

Barks Quotes #817294
#30. I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

P.G. Wodehouse

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#31. Carl Barks and Don Rosa are two of my favorite cartoonists ever.

Gene Luen Yang

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#32. A b*tch is a dog, a dog barks, bark is on a tree, a tree is part of nature, nature is beautiful, so when you call me a b*tch ... thanks for the compliment.

Anonymous

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#33. There's going to be a new cable-TV channel for dogs. Dogs don't even watch TV. But the schedule came out today. And they've got great shows, like Barks & Recreation and Game of Bones.

Craig Ferguson

Barks Quotes #961065
#34. The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,
The meadow creeps implacable and still;
A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.
One two three the cows bulge on the hill.

Allen Tate

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#35. A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent

John Calvin

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#36. My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog. But I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from 'The Wizard of Oz.' But I warn you, my dog is always with me ... WOOF!

Jack Nance

Barks Quotes #1022177
#37. She quickly exited the room, hearing the echoes of the mastiff's angered barks fade behind her down the hallway. As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now." At

Colin Meloy

Barks Quotes #1027963
#38. Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!

Swami Vivekananda

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#39. The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

Robert Frost

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#40. Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness, one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure.

Virginia Woolf

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#41. It was all primal instinct. A dog doesn't know why it barks or growls. It just knows something about its environment isn't right and it reacts.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#42. Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

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#43. Each dog barks in his own yard!

Rudyard Kipling

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#44. You're related to her?" I hear Mason say through the door. Then he laughs loudly. He has a great laugh. "Your name is Guy Love?" He barks out a laugh, louder this time. "Ironic, isn't it?

Cheryl McIntyre

Barks Quotes #1344812
#45. I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Tucker Carlson

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#46. Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.

Dwight Longenecker

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#47. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.
[If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]

George Herbert

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#48. Carl Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon, in 1901, grew up in a farming family, and eventually held a number of blue-collar jobs. He knew what it was to be poor and to work hard for a living.

Michael Dirda

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#49. It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

Chanakya

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#50. It's almost entirely waste. regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. the mind barks like a dog.

Charles Bukowski

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#51. Muzzle the owner if the dog barks all night.

Marty Rubin

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#52. Not every dog that barks, bites.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#53. Each dog barks in its own yard.

Rudyard Kipling

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#54. Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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#55. Trust me, if I was going to leave Dan for anyone, it would be Mark," Violet barks,

Lindsey Iler

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#56. When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

David Starr Jordan

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#57. You will never reach your destination if you stop & throw stones at every dog that barks ... Better keep biscuits & Move on.

Dhirubhai Ambani

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#58. If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is really remarkable.

Huston Smith

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#59. Why is Mommy crying?" the young boy asks his dad, all sugared up and bewildered with concern. "Because you're an asshole," barks back the father with exasperated logic.

John Waters

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#60. Lizbeth?" He barks from the balcony. "Guess what I just caught our daughter doing? Experimenting with beastiality
with a bird! And you can probably guess which daughter.

Addison Moore

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#61. We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails.
We let the stars shine into us.

David Almond

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#62. The bottom line is I've never had anybody bark at me in a mall with malicious intent. Everybody who barks at the kid from Cleveland is to let him know, "I know who you are." It's always a positive thing.

Arsenio Hall

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#63. The boys went off to fight with swords while girls had to learn dog barks and owl hoots. No wonder princesses were so impotent in fairy tales, she thought. If all they could do was smile, stand straight, and speak to squirrels, then what choice did they have but to wait for a boy to rescue them?

Soman Chainani

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#64. I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

Samantha Barks

Barks Quotes #6879
#65. I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.

Coleman Barks

Barks Quotes #22653
#66. I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

Carl Barks

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#67. Work smarter, not harder

Carl Barks

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#68. I never have celebrity crushes.

Samantha Barks

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#69. I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

Samantha Barks

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#70. There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

Samantha Barks

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#71. I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

Carl Barks

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#72. The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

Samantha Barks

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#73. [Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity ... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral ...

Coleman Barks

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#74. Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.

Coleman Barks

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#75. I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

Samantha Barks

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#76. I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

Carl Barks

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#77. When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn't it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full of laughing and freedom and novelty.

Coleman Barks

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#78. These poems need to be released from their cages,

Coleman Barks

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#79. We sometimes make spiderwebs of smoke and saliva, fragile though-packets
Leave thinking to the one who gave intelligence
Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improve

Coleman Barks

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#80. I want to make smart choices.

Samantha Barks

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#81. Solitude is a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

Coleman Barks

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#82. Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.

Coleman Barks

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#83. I like to walk around my neighborhood, late in the afternoon. I sometimes wind up at the wonderful, old Shell station that's been changed into a coffee shop. Right where Johnny used to change my oil, I have a latte and take out my little book bag. It doesn't sound very austere.

Coleman Barks

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#84. I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

Samantha Barks

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#85. From 'A Bowl Fallen From the Roof'
Be quiet now and wait.
It may be that the ocean one,
the one we desire so to move into and become,
desires us out here on land a little longer,
going our sundry ways to the shore.
-Rumi

Coleman Barks

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#86. I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

Samantha Barks

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#87. What I deeply want ... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.

Coleman Barks

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#88. I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

Carl Barks

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#89. We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

Samantha Barks

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#90. I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

Samantha Barks

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#91. Everything is conversation.

Coleman Barks

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#92. I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.

Samantha Barks

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#93. There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Carl Barks

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#94. The mind is what sleeps. What recognizes itself as God is awake.

Lalla Translation By Coleman Barks

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#95. There's some sort of exchange that goes on between human beings that is one of the highest things we do.

Coleman Barks

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#96. Fold within fold, the beloved
drowns in its own being. This world
is drenched with that drowning.

Coleman Barks

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#97. ... the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community
was to open the heart,
explore the mystery of union,
to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,
and to celebrate the glory and difficulty
in being in human incarnation.

Coleman Barks

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#98. Water the fruit trees, and don't water the thorns. Be generous to what nurtures the spirit and God's luminous reason-light. Don't honor what causes dysentry and knotted up tumors.

Coleman Barks

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#99. It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.

Coleman Barks

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#100. I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

Samantha Barks

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