Top 100 Barn Quotes
#1. Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.
P. J. O'Rourke
#2. Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.
M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
#3. As they ran to the barn and began the careful climb up the steep ladder, Lily realized she had accidentally put on snow boots in her hurry. When they reached the top, the quiet hush of the still hayloft gave them that whisper-in-the-library feeling.
Kate Willis
#4. Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
Don DeLillo
#5. My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a sign-writer.
Sherwood Anderson
#6. BECAUSE A BARN JUST FELL OUT OF THE SKY AND LANDED ON TOP OF ME!" the Tin Woodman yelled. "I DOUBT YOU'D BE TAKING IT ANY BETTER IF IT HAPPENED TO YOU!
Chris Colfer
#8. Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter and contemplating a sin.
Leigh Brackett
#9. Seabiscuit took to stomping and bellowing for food day and night. His moans rang off the barn walls and worked on everyone's nerves, but no one gave in. "The whole ranch became centered on the job," Howard said. "Even the pigs quit grunting at him and the chickens kept out of his way.
Laura Hillenbrand
#10. One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.
Tod Machover
#11. They got a manure machine in there," Keller said. He went up to the barn and peeked through a hole between tow boards. "On wheels. It's fun to ride sometimes, when you don't care how you smell.
Sandra Neil Wallace
#12. My head is like some ridiculous barn packed full of stuff I want to write about.
Haruki Murakami
#13. Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of town, the hayloft door swinging open and closed on rusty hinges, first disclosing darkness, then hiding it, then disclosing it again.
Stephen King
#14. The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.
Tod Machover
#15. Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
E.B. White
#16. In fact, he was dressed for the character of 'Jonas the Graveless, or the Corpse-Snatcher of Chertsey Barn,' one of his most remarkable impersonations
Oscar Wilde
#17. The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.
Tom Robbins
#18. If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
Ross Perot
#19. The woman's entire music collection is formed from Pottery Barn compilations.
Gillian Flynn
#20. Across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight ...
John Geddes
#21. Having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#22. My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn ... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.
Bob Feller
#23. My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'
Candace Bushnell
#24. He didn't like the way things were going.
There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn.
Stephen King
#25. Do you know who I am, you sodding barn animal?" he hissed. The publican gurgled. "I'm Jack fucking Winter." Jack said, releasing him with a push that rattled clean glasses on the bar back.
Caitlin Kittredge
#26. When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt. "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.
Larry McMurtry
#27. Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.
Hesiod
#28. I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
Lane Garrison
#29. It's what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.
Adrian Rogers
#30. Now from where I sit this whole thing smells like its downwind from a cow barn on a hot June day!
Waylon Jennings
#32. We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.
Don Meyer
#33. Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
Ingrid Newkirk
#34. Beware, Charlotte Atherton," Stone murmured as she disappeared around the corner of the barn. "I'm coming for you." A smile of anticipation stretched across his face. "And I always retrieve what I set out after.
Karen Witemeyer
#35. You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.
Don Meyer
#36. A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
James Thomas Fields
#37. Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.
Sara Ryan
#38. It was with deep, idiotic relief that I leaned on that fleshy, humid, barn-yard fool.
Kurt Vonnegut
#39. The village of Wall watched the battle of wills with fascination, wondering what the outcome would be, for no one crossed Bridget Forester: she had a tongue that could, the villagers said, blister the paint from a barn door and tear the bark from an oak.
Neil Gaiman
#40. The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
Matsuo Basho
#41. Do you ride?"
She smiled, her fingers lightly sliding around his ear. "Not since I hit that barn"
Zach's hands paused on her flesh. "You hit a barn?"
"I had to avoid the cow
Shelly Laurenston
#42. He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish.
Sylvain Reynard
#43. So, you got shit-faced, spray-painted a barn with a lovely shade of Exorcist-green puke, fucked a donkey while you were there, and started a fist fight with a recovering, meth-addicted nun and her lovechild who were reenacting the nativity scene?
Kendall Grey
#44. When I'm not working, I love going to the beach. I am from Florida, so I definitely love the beach life. I love horse-back riding. Just to go out to a barn, it's fun. It's kind of like a get-away from the city. And also, I love animals.
Stefanie Scott
#45. There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing.
Anthony Lane
#46. Her fingers moved gently in his hair. She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously.
John Steinbeck
#47. In fact, if the conversation had been animate, the merciful thing to do would have been to take it out behind the barn and shoot it.
Courtney Milan
#48. You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.
Genevieve Gorder
#49. You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.
Sylvia Plath
#50. I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer.
Chevy Stevens
#51. If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
Stephen King
#52. I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
Walton Goggins
#53. I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
J. D. Souther
#54. I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#55. The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.
Coventry Patmore
#56. I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.
Victoria Wood
#57. Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
Anouk Aimee
#58. That's my dream to be old enough and mature enough that I won't be considered an "old lady" if I have a house with a barn. Because I already do needlepoint.
Emmy Rossum
#59. Only a fool closes the door when the wolf is already inside the barn.
Orson Scott Card
#60. My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.
Kaley Cuoco
#61. ...a single tongue of flame shooting out the side of the O'Learys' barn.
(Where the fire started)
Jim Murphy
#62. Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
Taylor Dayne
#64. My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.
Sophie Hannah
#65. The milking machines sounded tranquilizing, and there was the collegiality of seventy animal spirits thriving, warming the barn with cud-chewing, nose-snuffling, and sisterly mammalhood.
Edward Hoagland
#66. Mizuta Masahide's haiku: "My barn having burned down / I can now see the moon.
Sarah Lewis
#67. The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.
Parke Godwin
#68. The slingshot?" said Mrs. Wiggins. "Georgie's got it. We're going to take it down to the cow barn for safe keeping. Well, Alice, you're the judge and the jury, and if you say let him go - " She nodded to her sisters, who set Jimmy down and released his arms. The
Walter R. Brooks
#69. Sometimes, when your luck shifts, it does it so freaking loud that it jars your bones. I was determined not to get my hopes up crazy high, not about the barn and not about anything else either. But my bones? They fucking sang.
Eli Easton
#70. I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did.
Mickey Rooney
#71. Whacked away under the desk like hail on a barn roof.
Dennis Vickers
#72. The first slap-jack given me for dinner was a cake of flour, partially fried in a pan of fat bacon. I nibbled about the brown edges and threw it, unbaked, against a barn door, where it stuck for days.
James Smith
#73. The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.
Lenny Bruce
#74. THE BARN was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell - as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world.
E.B. White
#75. In the shop, breathing the scent of dusty grease and oil; in the old house, staring into the living room where Dad and Jake used to take naps together on the couch; in the sheep barn, remembering the joy implicit in so much baaing life; in every inch of the farm, I recalled my father's presence.
Julene Bair
#76. Auld John may dee a beggar in a hay barn, or at the back of a dike, but he sall aye be master o' his ain thoughts an' gie them vent or no, as he likes
James Hogg
#77. You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry?
Kathy Bryson
#78. And there was a tree stump outside the Black Barn everyone called 'Dave's stump' because for over three years, until a few weeks before our arrival, he'd sat on it to read and write, sometimes even when it was raining or cold.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#79. Soon the signs started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA.
Don DeLillo
#80. In the silence, I could hear the distinct sound of goats maa-ing in the barn. Lying there listening to them made me smile, too. I'd always loved goats - every one of them different from every other one, and all of them goofy and playful.
Steve Watkins
#81. When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre.
Andre Leon Talley
#82. Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?
Gerrard Winstanley
#83. At times, I was so confused that I felt like the stem of a pinwheel surrounded by whir and clatter, but through that whole unsettling time I knew that it simply would not do to hide in the barn with a book and an apple and let events plunge forward without me.
Lauren Wolk
#84. I will be master of what is mine own:
She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
My household stuff, my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.
William Shakespeare
#85. You might be a redneck if you think Silence of the Lambs is what happens when Larry walks out to the barn.
Jeff Foxworthy
#86. His brow was sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought and his air that of a man who, if he had said 'Hullo, girls', would have said it like someone in a Russian drama announcing that Grandpapa had hanged himself in the barn.
P.G. Wodehouse
#87. I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.
Dolly Parton
#88. Why hadn't he chosen a different Amish barn to bed down in last nacht? He hated Bethany seeing him like this. Remembering him like this. A homeless wanderer. A stray.
Laura V. Hilton
#89. Father Stalin, look at this Collective farming is just bliss The hut's in ruins, the barn's all sagged All the horses broken nags And on the hut a hammer and sickle And in the hut death and famine No cows left, no pigs at all Just your picture on the wall
Timothy Snyder
#90. In every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding.
Rick Yancey
#91. My old furniture is rotting in a barn where I was permitted to store it, and as for myself, dear God, I don't have a roof over my head and it is raining into my eyes.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#92. A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.
Paul Engle
#93. The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.
David Aaron Kessler
#94. Our sister Alma was the best hitter in the family. We used to soak corn cobs in water so they wouldn't fly so far when we hit 'em. Alma was the first to hit one far enough to break a window in the barn.
Lloyd Waner
#95. But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter?
Anne Bosworth Greene
#97. I guess the difference between Gin and me is that when Gin got shut in the barn she thought Edmond didn't love her anymore but because I could feel Edmond out there somewhere always loving me I didn't have to howl all night.
Meg Rosoff
#98. I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit ... when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.
Kurt Vonnegut
#99. Maybe he got tired of waiting and he'd gone without me though I doubted that was the case and decided he was probably doing something Max-ish. Chopping wood. Building a barn. Saving a child in distress or climbing a tree to rescue a cat. Stuff like that.
Kristen Ashley
#100. When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
Wendell Berry
