Barking Dogs Quotes - Page 2

• 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 at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling "Bart," and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

  Matt Groening

  Dog, Father, School

  "Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield". Interview with Claudia De La Roca, www.smithsonianmag.com. May 2012.

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• The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dog, Tree, Heaven

  Bertrand Agostini, Christiane Pajotin, Jack Kerouac (1998). “Itinéraire dans l'errance: Jack Kerouac et le haïku”

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• One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Dog, Men, Hair

  Jennifer Armintrout (2007). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.107, MIRA

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• To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger, a guy with a barkin' dog and a high fence around him. Now you can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you. Tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork.

  Robert Riskin

  Teamwork, Country, Dog

  "Fictional character: Long John Willoughby/John Doe". "Meet John Doe", 1941.

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• A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Photography, Dog, Choices

  Interview with Paul Auster, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Dog, Teacher, Freedom

  Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952.

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