Barney's Version Quotes

#1. In modern medicine, we have a name for nearly everything, but a cure for almost nothing.

Charles F. Glassman

#2. Anything,
compared to the people,
is a foundation worth
searching for.
anything.

Charles Bukowski

#3. A picture is not going to be like a stone that has been subjected to the rain and the heat and the cold and the dirt and the smell of Jerusalem. This stone is Jerusalem. It is.

Refaat Alareer

#4. Harold glared sullenly at him again, the eyes those of a piggy little boy who wants the whole cookie jar to himself. Ain't he going to be surprised, Stu thought, when he finds out a girl isn't a jar of cookies.

Stephen King

#5. My arm is weighted by the huge pile of clothing she's hung over it. A moment of clarity comes over me. This isn't what friendship is about, I know that now.

Dawn O'Porter

#6. It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#7. [The Devil] My best feelings, gratitude, for example, are formally forbidden solely because of my social position.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Democracy is the Free World's whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of tastes.

Arundhati Roy

#9. With love and kindness, with persistence and politeness, you can shake the world.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

Joey Ramone

#11. I know that losing a job is incredibly stressful, and particularly for a man, they say it can be like a death in the family,

Gillian Flynn

#12. One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Cesare Pavese

#13. In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

John McCarthy

#14. Society ends up with the adults it deserves. It's just a little more obvious nowadays.

Ake Edwardson