Top 100 Barrel Quotes
#1. Black-on black crime' is jargon, violence on language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#2. The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.
P. J. O'Rourke
#3. He's out there waiting for us. We his the street, and we're ducks in a barrel. (Steele)
Isn't that fish in a barrel? (Syd)
Don't fuck with my metaphors right now, Syd. Can't you see that I'm under stress? (Steele)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#4. I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.
Keith Stanfield
#5. You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.
Lionel Tiger
#6. When he came to, the eels were still being removed from him and Anvar was congratulating one of the rivermen. The man had smashed open a barrel of eels and covered both dwarf and zombie with them.
Ian Livingstone
#7. No one knew who he was. No one knew where he came from. He'd become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel. The
Leigh Bardugo
#8. Death and life were not
Till man made up the whole,
Made lock, stock and barrel
Out of his bitter soul
William Butler Yeats
#10. The fox who end up living the life they expected are more often than not end up taking sleeping pills or taking the barrel of a gun and pulling the trigger.
Stephen King
#11. To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.
Tommy Douglas
#12. With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.
Nick Cave
#13. I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are.
Fred Eaglesmith
#14. There's going to be no compromise on repealing Obamacare lock, stock and barrel.
Mike Pence
#15. We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.
Gerald R. Ford
#16. When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.
Raza Jaffrey
#17. There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.
Burne Hogarth
#18. Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.
Rodney Crowell
#19. What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
Saint Francis De Sales
#20. I stared down the slim barrel of a gun, looked into eyes rabid with fear and hatred, and saw my reflection. Pulled the trigger to make it go away.
I heard the echoes of my gunshots, smelled the cordite, and in the smoke, I still saw my reflection and knew I always would.
Dennis Lehane
#21. If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market.
Daniel Yergin
#22. He leaned across the desk and produced a short-barrel revolver from one of the drawers. "One problem. Six solutions.
Matt Hults
#23. I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.
Gordon Brown
#24. Far beneath the rusty Baltimore dawn, stirrings in the maximum security ward. Down where it is never dark the tormented sense beginning day as oysters in a barrel open to their lost tide. God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again and the ravers cleared their throats.
Thomas Harris
#25. The world should forget about cheap oil. [The price] will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.
Hugo Chavez
#26. Look, Tammy, it's part of our mandate. We barrel in, we fuck things up, and then we walk away feeling good about our selves.
Steven Erikson
#27. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.
Ron Bloom
#28. No one got the better of Kaz. He was the toughest, scariest thing walking the alleys of the Barrel.
Leigh Bardugo
#29. Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're running out of fears. A person suffering from fear of success is scraping the bottom of the fear barrel.
Jerry Seinfeld
#30. Twelve barrels of water are required to make one barrel of bitumen. This produces 400 million gallons a day of toxic wastewater at the tar sand mines.
Samuel Avery
#31. Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem to barrel through an interview like this, so I imagine I have a long way to go.
Holly Black
#32. He was a gangling creature of potential, a barrel of dynamite waiting for someone or something to light his hues; but no one did.
Neil Gaiman
#33. Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.
Evelyn Waugh
#34. Zzt motioned with the blaster barrel. 'Why don't you just walk out of here and have a nice crap.
L. Ron Hubbard
#35. Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
Warren Buffett
#36. Imagine waking up and finding your first and last view of the world was a shotgun barrel. That'd be a hell of a life.
John Scalzi
#37. And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.
Kristin Hannah
#39. I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.
William Shatner
#40. Veek clutched her blocky pistol in both hands. A tiny wisp of smoke slipped out of the barrel, thinned, and vanished. The smell of powder wafted around her.
Peter Clines
#41. I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.
Helen Thomas
#42. Interns are invisible. You can tell an executive your name a hundred times and that executive will never remember it because they have no respect for someone at the bottom of the barrel, working for free.
Shane Kuhn
#43. Rifle at Rylie. He stared at her down the barrel, meeting her reflective golden gaze. She was a beautiful wolf, much more slender than Jericho, and more
S.M. Reine
#44. You should be more careful," said Josh with a crooked grin, the barrel of his gun still smoking. "It's dangerous around here. You could get hurt."
Sam grinned back savagely. "I'll try to remember.
Phillip W. Simpson
#45. I paused for a moment, debating whether to turn and look what was happening. My senses told me Obo's presence was still at my side, and turning my face into the barrel of a gun seemed like an ill-advised way to cap off this day of monumentally stupid decisions.
M.A. George
#46. As it is, Brent Crude on the London exchange reached over $115 a barrel last week, and had fallen to $114 or yesterday. A decade ago it wasn't unheard of for a barrel to be sold at $15 a barrel, about a tenth of what it is now,
Anonymous
#47. By all accounts Rafe's life had been shattered by the loss of his brother Peter. But whereas she turned away from drink when Draven died, Rafe had simply upended a barrel of brandy on his head and hadn't taken that hat off since.
Eloisa James
#48. We do not have a few "rotten apples"; we have a rotten-apple barrel and a pervasive culture of corruption.
Thomas J. Gradel
#49. I hope that wasn't because of what I said about the barrel racing," Kelsey said.
"Probably me," Cole said. "She's sensitive. And I'm not. I'll apologize later.
Maisey Yates
#50. I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!
Dick Gregory
#51. You're the man now,' she said to me after my father died, 'you're the man.' Then she turned to Popeye, our calico tom, and said, 'You're the cat now, Popeye, you're the cat,' as if she'd always worn a veil over her face and had never known we were men and cats all along.
David Sedaris
#52. Kaz flexed his fingers in his gloves. How did you survive the Barrel? When they took everything from you, you found a way to make something from nothing.
Leigh Bardugo
#53. Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun ...
Mao Tse-tung
#54. Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.
Malalai Joya
#55. The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.
Steven Johnson
#56. I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my characters into the paper with life giving ink so my dreams and reality might finally meet.
L.M. Fields
#57. I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.
George Galloway
#58. One worm who's happily found himself in a barrel of fresh apples,
Jeffrey Archer
#59. A teaspoon of honey is worth more to the bee than a barrel of gold.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. I found myself teetering on the edge of Uh-oh, and looking straight down the barrel of Oh, shit.
Beth Harbison
#61. You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust emerging China, many of you will recall, ramped up to near $150 a barrel. Then we had the financial - U.S. financial collapse. Oil prices collapsed all the way down to $40 a barrel.
Rex Tillerson
#62. Still, he could balance himself with one hand on an inverted ginger-ale bottle while revolving a barrel on the soles of his feet. There is good in all of us.
P.G. Wodehouse
#63. It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world. She thought those sounds were magic.
Stieg Larsson
#64. Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.
Meljean Brook
#65. You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
Hans Blix
#66. Prohibition may be the greatest gift any government ever gave its citizens. A barrel of beer cost $4 to make and sold for $55. A case of spiritous liquor cost $20 to produce and earned $90
and all this without taxes.
Bill Bryson
#67. All you need is a double barrel
Joe Biden
#68. Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
Fareed Zakaria
#69. Alexander looked into the barrel of one of the guns. He blinked.
O God, please look after Tania all alone in the world.
Paullina Simons
#70. His life was a festival of excess that could not be contained. Deafening music, eye-popping bright colors, sugar added to almost everything he ate. Quinn's life was a bullet in a barrel ready to explode.
Neal Shusterman
#71. I'm strapped in [the barrel] with a five-point drag-racing harness. With 50 feet to go, they tell me on the walkie-talkie to get ready for a head-first. "We love ya, man," was the last thing I heard. Then I could feel myself going over.
Steve Trotter
#72. It's like somebody stuffed him in a barrel full of moonshine-proof cluelessness and then left him there to get pickled in it while it fermented into malice.
Alma Alexander
#73. Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.
Richard Russo
#74. During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!
Abraham Lincoln
#75. Looking down the barrel of your eye, I see the body of a Bloody Cinderella looking back.
Djuna Barnes
#76. I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.
Colin Baker
#77. In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.
Paul Gillmor
#78. Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
Mignon McLaughlin
#79. You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to me. I think, if I had been able, that I would have killed him through the barrel.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#81. Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
Tahereh Mafi
#82. I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.
Warren Buffett
#83. There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
Carlos Santana
#84. I dipped my head so I could look into his eyes. The monster at my table looked ready to cry. I'd managed to make a teenager depressed. Maybe I could shoot some fish in a barrel for an encore.
Ilona Andrews
#85. There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.
Suzanne Crowley
#86. In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.
Kim Basinger
#87. Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.
Rick Perry
#88. Guns aren't just history's props and agents: they're history itself, spinning alternate futures in their chamber, hurling the present from their barrel, casting aside the empty shells of past
Tom McCarthy
#89. Im straight ... But my girl a faggot ... Potato on the barrel ... Potato salad
Lil' Wayne
#90. Women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.
Anna Julia Cooper
#92. I'm very pleased when the smartest people come [to the U.S.] and almost never pleased when the very bottom of the mental barrel comes in ...
Charlie Munger
#93. As we walk I can hear the barrel of his gun, slapping against his thigh.
Lauren Oliver
#94. When your holding a double barrel shotgun use both barrels.
JR
#95. The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad.
Isabel Yosito
#96. With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels. We're
Chuck Palahniuk
#97. Gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse. Inej
Leigh Bardugo
#98. Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.
D. A. Carson
#99. Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.
Khaled Hosseini
#100. This isn't really death,' Tyler says. 'We'll be legend. We won't grow old.' I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you're thinking of vampires.
Chuck Palahniuk
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