Top 100 Barney Quotes
#2. Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
Al Franken
#3. From 1961 to 1965 Barney and I had not seen another UFO.
Betty Hill
#4. I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
Barney Frank
#5. Barney did not reply. He looked at Krendler as though the left and right hemispheres of Krendler's brain were two dogs stuck together.
Thomas Harris
#6. The thing about New York is it's like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the big department stores - Barney's, Bloomingdales and all that stuff - but I like the little stores.
Bryan Greenberg
#7. All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
Barney Ross
#8. To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#9. The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
Barney Frank
#10. He was a strange mix of Heinrich Himmler and Barney the Dinosaur.
Jonas Eriksson
#12. Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
Barney Frank
#13. 'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.
Matthew Barney
#14. One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
Chellie Pingree
#15. Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
Barney Ross
#16. Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
Natalie Clifford Barney
#17. Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.
Barney Frank
#19. I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
Barney Frank
#20. After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
Barney Ross
#21. In his haste to get his client on and off the stand with as little damage as possible, Barney neglected to rebut most of the allegations from the state's witnesses. Ron could have explained his "dream confession" to Rogers and Featherstone the night after his arrest.
John Grisham
#22. It's so lame. Of all the colors in the rainbow we could have gotten, we get purple. Why don't we just morph into purple dinosaurs named Barney instead of werewolves, too?
Jody Morse
#23. You're so hilarious. You know, if this whole Daimon-slaying gig doesn't work out for you, you should really consider being a comedian. The bright Barney hair color would just add to the overall entertainment factor.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed both in these superb and long-neglected translations for Negro and elsewhere in his work.
Barney Rosset
#25. I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
Barney Frank
#26. Barney said that everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once. I have. More than once.
Morris Gleitzman
#27. The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
Barney Frank
#28. 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
#30. From that night on, wherever Barney and I went UFOs paced us.
Betty Hill
#31. The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
Barney Ross
#32. 'Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked.
James Cromwell
#33. And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
Barney Frank
#34. My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.
Alvin Lee
#35. I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
Barney Frank
#36. But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.
Barney Hoskyns
#37. The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
Barney Oliver
#38. An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.
Matthew Barney
#39. Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.
L.M. Montgomery
#41. 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
#43. Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
Barney Frank
#44. Dude.. where's your suit? Just once, when I say "suit up" I wish you'd put on a suit.
Barney Stinson
#45. When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!
Barney Kessel
#46. But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.
Barney Frank
#47. I'm less interested in skin than in fascia
connective tissue.
Matthew Barney
#49. Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.
Barney Frank
#50. To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#51. Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
Barney Frank
#53. A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#54. They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
Barney Frank
#55. The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
Barney Frank
#56. Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.
Barney Frank
#57. When, suddenly, on an ordinary Wednesday, it seemed to Barney that the world tilted and ran downhill in all directions, he knew he was about to be haunted again.
Margaret Mahy
#58. What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
Barney Frank
#60. When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#61. The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.
Barney Frank
#62. Albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#63. Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.
Barney Frank
#64. 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
#66. 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
#67. You can tell I have kids right? Just so I don't break out into a Barney tune here in three minutes.
Chris Spielman
#68. Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.
George Harrison
#69. We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
Barney Ross
#71. Does getting closer to the subject make the photograph more intimate? I'm sure it takes more than that. What comes next? The face, the nude? That's what I'd love to do. Who would even let me do that?
Tina Barney
#72. Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
Barney Ross
#73. Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?
Ned Vizzini
#74. A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
Matthew Barney
#75. But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
Barney Frank
#76. My theory is, the more pictures you take, the better you get. It's like a sport. I never wait to get a particular shot because wonderful accidents can happen when you shoot a lot.
Tina Barney
#77. There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
Barney Frank
#78. Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
Barney Frank
#79. Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
Barney Frank
#80. The world is full of things put off for the wrong reasons, which can suddenly become impossible without any warning. They hang in the air like ghosts, their mouths sewn up forever. They will never be able to speak, but if it was you who put them there, you will always be forced to see them.
Barney Norris
#81. Bah. What's a little water to a pirate? (Barney)
A bout of pneumonia if he's not careful. (Morgan)
Kinley MacGregor
#83. Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world ...
Barney Kessel
#84. 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
#85. I think the way NOW characterized Smith Barney is disgraceful. I am appalled that an organization like that would not have reserved judgment (until) making their own investigation.
Jamie Dimon
#86. Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.
Don Knotts
#87. Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
Barney Oliver
#88. I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
Barney Frank
#90. I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.
Neil Patrick Harris
#91. The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.
Jeff Foxworthy
#92. 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
#93. Lilac curled her upper lip in a dead-eyed sneer, and it made my skin crawl. The girl looked like she might fillet me and have me for a snack later. She made the Dale R. Fielding High School Cheer Squad look like Barney and Friends, and I vowed to give her a wide berth.
Veronica Wolff
#94. I know now that before I take a picture I have to be sure about how I feel about the subjects. What I don't know is if I should explain to them what I'm doing while I'm photographing them ...
Tina Barney
#95. When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful!
Barney Saltzberg
#96. I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
Barney Frank
#98. I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
Barney Frank
#99. I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
Barney Frank
#100. I worked at Barney's selling clothes to lonely, rich white women. Every time I would look down on myself - hating my job, hating my life - I would think, 'It's a character study. Study these people, and you'll have your SNL audition ready in, like, five minutes.'
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