Barking Quotes
90 quotes by 83 authors
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Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds,…
— Alberto Santos-Dumont
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If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.
— Oriana Fallaci
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Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.
— Morton Blackwell
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If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong…
— Susan Olsen
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up…
— Pablo Picasso
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Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the…
— Geoff Nicholson
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Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.
— Sholom Aleichem
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...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the…
— Tom Franklin
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What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on
— Bruce R. McConkie
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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano;…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs.
— Nizar Qabbani
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
— Sappho
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This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.
— David Salle
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid…
— Matt Groening
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Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask…
— Annie Lennox
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Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
— Konrad Lorenz
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Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.
— Daniel Radcliffe
Who Wrote These Barking Quotes
83 authors contributed a total of 90 Barking Quotes, led by these top contributors: