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. 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
#5. 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
#6. He was a strange mix of Heinrich Himmler and Barney the Dinosaur.
Jonas Eriksson
#7. One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
Chellie Pingree
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Barney said that everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once. I have. More than once.
Morris Gleitzman
#12. 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
#14. From that night on, wherever Barney and I went UFOs paced us.
Betty Hill
#15. '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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. You can tell I have kids right? Just so I don't break out into a Barney tune here in three minutes.
Chris Spielman
#20. Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.
George Harrison
#21. 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
#22. Bah. What's a little water to a pirate? (Barney)
A bout of pneumonia if he's not careful. (Morgan)
Kinley MacGregor
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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.'
Brandon Uranowitz
#29. You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies.
Tim Conway
#30. By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.
Betty Hill
#31. First of all, Vickie's wearing purple. She looks like Barney.
Matt Striker
#32. Giving a girl the impression that girlhood is an extended bounce on Barney's knee is like prepping a young gazelle for life on the Serengeti by dipping it in cream.
Natalie Angier
#33. whispered because Barney heard everything, was to drag a case or a hearing past lunch and into the afternoon when he always took his nap.
John Grisham
#34. What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
Barry McGuigan
#35. When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock
John B. Keane
#36. His presence and testimony highlighted the unfairness of expecting an indigent defendant to get a fair trial without giving him access to forensic experts. Barney had requested such assistance months earlier, and Judge Jones had declined.
John Grisham
#37. The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney..
Steven Wright
#38. No one, it appeared to Barney, had anything to do now; the weight of empty time hung over them all.
Philip K. Dick
#39. Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing ... Nobody can play guitar like that
John Lennon
#40. Could you really catch me? (Serenity)
Absolutely. Besides, Barney would have my head if I let you make a mess on the deck. (Morgan)
Oh, thanks. I'm glad chivalry is alive and well on the high seas. (Serenity)
Kinley MacGregor
#41. Every girl's dream is to have two hot guys having a bit of a barney over you.
Lenora Crichlow
#42. Because we're framily. You know, I love you, you love me? Like Barney only with bad language.
Dakota Cassidy
#43. USA has gone from Barney Fife to Barney Frank.
Mike Huckabee
#44. I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.
Bill Watterson
#45. Finley trusts Barney's advice. Barney has never steered him wrong.
Uncle Amon
#46. My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#47. The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.
Charlie Pierce
#48. My first-ever concert was the Barney concert when I was, like, six. My mum took me because I was obsessed with Barney. Barney was actually my first crush ... He's, like, literally better than all the guys in the whole world.
Gigi Hadid
#49. I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.
Angelina Jolie
#50. Ted, I believe you and I met for a reason. It's like the universe was saying, Hey Barney, there's this dude, he's pretty cool, but it is your job to make him awesome
Barney Stinson
#51. Barney spotted our neighbor's lawn, where he promptly took care of his business. There I was, the former president of the United States, with a plastic bag on my hand, picking up that which I had been dodging for the past eight years.
George W. Bush
#52. The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It starred my Saint Bernard Barney, and it was a killer thriller with oodles of special effects that were cutting edge for the time.
Les Claypool
#53. They came out over the highway and they stopped and that's when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he'd been in the military in World War Two, he's puzzled.
Betty Hill
#54. The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what's happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Nancy Pelosi's, Harry Reid's, Barney Frank's, you name it, Eric Holder.
Rush Limbaugh
#55. Party Manners IT WAS the Easter holiday. Barney and Lou were doing some painting in the dining-room
Clive King
#56. Before long, I'll have my own channel - I'll be like Barney.
David Hasselhoff
#57. I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament.
Sean Hannity
#58. Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about "shit". It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.
Dean Cavanagh
#59. My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.
Paul O'Grady
#60. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!
Selena Gomez
#61. Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
Mordecai Richler
#62. I honestly don't think that I am cool enough or important enough that anyone would care about what I am doing at all hours of the day like "I just had a latte from Starbucks and now I am going to Barney's. Love me some shoes!"
Megan Fox
#63. As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
Julie Burchill
#64. Yep," I said proudly, and kind of sniffed like Barney Fife when he was allowed to load his pistol.
Ronnie Ray Jenkins
#65. I don't know if we even mentioned UFOs. It was to find out why Barney was emotionally upset.
Betty Hill
#66. I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.
Betty Hill
#67. One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
Martin Short
#68. We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.
Mark Twain
#69. Barney was nearly through with his workout, cooling down on a bike, when he realized he was not alone in the room.
Thomas Harris
#70. Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his tail off, he was a heck of an arranger and could out-read anybody ...
Larry Coryell
#71. Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
Barry McGuigan
#72. If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.
Ben Horowitz
#73. I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney's burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries.
Jessica Biel
#74. I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then ... while I was single ... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation.
Betty Hill
#75. 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
#76. All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
Barney Ross
#77. To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#78. 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
#80. Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
Barney Frank
#81. '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
#82. Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
Barney Ross
#83. Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
Natalie Clifford Barney
#84. 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
#86. I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
Barney Frank
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
Barney Frank
#93. I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
Barney Frank
#94. 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
#95. The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
Barney Oliver
#96. 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
#97. Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.
L.M. Montgomery
#100. Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
Barney Frank
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