Top 100 Barney's Quotes

#1. Roots like an oak tree, Barney." He

Dean Koontz

Barney's Quotes #2606
#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

Barney's Quotes #8823
#3. From 1961 to 1965 Barney and I had not seen another UFO.

Betty Hill

Barney's Quotes #11182
#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

Barney's Quotes #21854
#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

Barney's Quotes #42730
#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

Barney's Quotes #46560
#7. All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Barney Ross

Barney's Quotes #47083
#8. To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Barney's Quotes #50538
#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

Barney's Quotes #57573
#10. He was a strange mix of Heinrich Himmler and Barney the Dinosaur.

Jonas Eriksson

Barney's Quotes #59084
#11. Anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Barney's Quotes #59446
#12. Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #66607
#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

Barney's Quotes #75809
#14. One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

Chellie Pingree

Barney's Quotes #76110
#15. Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Barney Ross

Barney's Quotes #102017
#16. Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

Natalie Clifford Barney

Barney's Quotes #113748
#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

Barney's Quotes #120696
#18. Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Barney's Quotes #122306
#19. I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #126882
#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

Barney's Quotes #139438
#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

Barney's Quotes #143485
#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

Barney's Quotes #144840
#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

Barney's Quotes #146557
#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

Barney's Quotes #147580
#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

Barney's Quotes #154246
#26. Barney said that everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once. I have. More than once.

Morris Gleitzman

Barney's Quotes #156248
#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

Barney's Quotes #163933
#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

Barney's Quotes #166818
#29. Barney Bigard's clarinet,

Haruki Murakami

Barney's Quotes #178266
#30. From that night on, wherever Barney and I went UFOs paced us.

Betty Hill

Barney's Quotes #189224
#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

Barney's Quotes #189814
#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

Barney's Quotes #213249
#33. And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #227568
#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

Barney's Quotes #230693
#35. I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #231224
#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

Barney's Quotes #231992
#37. The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

Barney Oliver

Barney's Quotes #236956
#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

Barney's Quotes #244557
#39. Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.

L.M. Montgomery

Barney's Quotes #249296
#40. A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Barney's Quotes #263037
#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

Barney's Quotes #270239
#42. Novels are longer than life.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Barney's Quotes #281952
#43. Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #285586
#44. Dude.. where's your suit? Just once, when I say "suit up" I wish you'd put on a suit.

Barney Stinson

Barney's Quotes #305826
#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

Barney's Quotes #312304
#46. Daily deeds determine destiny's.

Barney Matthews

Barney's Quotes #328265
#47. Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #354417
#48. 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

Barney's Quotes #362583
#49. 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

Barney's Quotes #378782
#50. What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #412950
#51. 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

Barney's Quotes #434741
#52. To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Barney's Quotes #449883
#53. 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

Barney's Quotes #498866
#54. 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

Barney's Quotes #551804
#55. Bah. What's a little water to a pirate? (Barney)
A bout of pneumonia if he's not careful. (Morgan)

Kinley MacGregor

Barney's Quotes #587806
#56. 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

Barney's Quotes #633872
#57. Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Barney Oliver

Barney's Quotes #638266
#58. It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Barney's Quotes #644170
#59. 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

Barney's Quotes #656897
#60. 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

Barney's Quotes #657057
#61. 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

Barney's Quotes #730808
#62. There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #742766
#63. 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

Barney's Quotes #747844
#64. First of all, Vickie's wearing purple. She looks like Barney.

Matt Striker

Barney's Quotes #752849
#65. I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

Matthew Barney

Barney's Quotes #768382
#66. 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

Barney's Quotes #814763
#67. I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #833630
#68. There were a lot of Romneys. There was the Romney who was ; going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there's the Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #887695
#69. Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Barney's Quotes #936998
#70. I think what interests me the most is when the two things are developed at the same time, which certainly feels natural for the way of working when there is no dialogue. You sort of depend on the music to be that, especially when there's lyrics in the music.

Matthew Barney

Barney's Quotes #1038820
#71. Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing ... Nobody can play guitar like that

John Lennon

Barney's Quotes #1045298
#72. There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #1077827
#73. Every girl's dream is to have two hot guys having a bit of a barney over you.

Lenora Crichlow

Barney's Quotes #1092531
#74. A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.

Matthew Barney

Barney's Quotes #1130095
#75. Finley trusts Barney's advice. Barney has never steered him wrong.

Uncle Amon

Barney's Quotes #1137014
#76. 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

Barney's Quotes #1162404
#77. 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

Barney's Quotes #1182887
#78. That Mesozoic mama's boy wouldn't have lasted five seconds in the Cretaceous period.

Gordon Korman

Barney's Quotes #1209956
#79. 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

Barney's Quotes #1222850
#80. 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

Barney's Quotes #1226479
#81. That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.

Barney Norris

Barney's Quotes #1228997
#82. 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

Barney's Quotes #1238640
#83. I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #1263518
#84. Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

Barney Kessel

Barney's Quotes #1299300
#85. 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

Barney's Quotes #1313202
#86. 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

Barney's Quotes #1353536
#87. This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #1388966
#88. The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #1412324
#89. 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

Barney's Quotes #1473714
#90. 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

Barney's Quotes #1483348
#91. Grief's not like a cancer, doesn't go when the operation's done and the darkness is out. It's a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a scar, but it's always with you the rest of your life.

Barney Norris

Barney's Quotes #1530270
#92. I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #1535790
#93. I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

Matthew Barney

Barney's Quotes #1554319
#94. 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

Barney's Quotes #1561199
#95. I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 Senators there and they'll all die because they won't have the 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #1575202
#96. My only books were women's looks.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Barney's Quotes #1686242
#97. They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #1714603
#98. But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

Barney Frank

Barney's Quotes #1741530
#99. I have a way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.

Matthew Barney

Barney's Quotes #1776962
#100. I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney's burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries.

Jessica Biel

Barney's Quotes #1847273

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