Barrell Quotes

#1. A barrell full of certainties won't roll very far.

Gerd De Ley

#2. You cannot know wine by the barrell.

George Herbert

#3. Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.

Ben Gibbard

#4. She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.

Dave Barry

#5. "Thinking" is not something we talk about.

Joseph Barrell

#6. Here we believe that God has already done His part; now it is up to us to continue the process.

Paulo Coelho

#7. Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

Joseph Barrell

#8. The teacher is the only one worth listening to.

Joseph Barrell

#9. How do you know if you are going into judgment? If you feel any negativity toward another person whatsoever, you are going into judgment about them.

Catherine Carrigan

#10. If I memorize enough stuff, I can get a good grade.

Joseph Barrell

#11. If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

Joseph Barrell

#12. Happiness is often hard-hearted.

Mason Cooley

#13. In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

Mark Nepo

#14. The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

Joseph Barrell

#15. Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

Mike Birbiglia

#16. The answer to most questions can be given in one or two words, and no one will challenge you to go deeper.

Joseph Barrell

#17. If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding.

Joseph Barrell

#18. Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles.

Joseph Barrell

#19. I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!

Neve Campbell

#20. America's Most Wanted? I love it when there's a guy in the back seat pounding his head on the plexiglas. That to me is the best.

Pauly Shore

#21. And then he winked.
Jeez, I thought my heart would explode on the spot. The last time a guy winked at me was years ago, and that'd been a creepy mall Santa.

Veronica Wolff

#22. I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I got out, dried off, went upstairs, and finished the book in about 50 days.

Charles McCarry

#23. There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.

Joseph Barrell