Barrel Quotes

158 quotes by 144 authors

I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is… — Owen Hart
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs… — Stan Musial
In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one… — Henry Ward Beecher
All you need is a double barrel — Joe Biden
...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel. — Andrew Sullivan
The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it. — Ronald Reagan
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. — Mignon McLaughlin
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and… — Michel de Montaigne
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will… — William Gilmore Simms
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel… — Dalai Lama
My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care. — Elton John
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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… — Steven Johnson
I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I… — Alan Jackson
Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made. — Rodney Crowell
Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent… — David Knopfler
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35… — Vinod Khosla
The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible. — Christopher Flavin
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. — John Lyly
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already… — Anton Chekhov

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