Barrels Quotes - Page 11

• 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 drunk up a whole barrel.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Glasses, Drunk

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• My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

  Lane Kirkland

  People, Ink, Argument

  Quoted in David Olive Business Babble (1993).

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• Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Long, Keystone Pipeline

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• It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

  Morris Graves

  Prayer, Dedication, Wind

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  All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Gun, Political

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• I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your blood.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Fall, Golf, Blood

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• I've been so blessed because I've had such longevity. I'm not a big red carpet girl. But I love the work. 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

  Girl, Blessed, Bottom Of The Barrel

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• I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

  Hedda Hopper

  People, Gossip, Hollywood

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

  Emmanuel des Essarts

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.

  James F. Cooper

  Country, Mother, Children

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• ... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view to adopting ways and means to offset any adverse effects on the per barrel real income of Member Countries resulting from the international monetary developments as of 15th August 1971.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Real, Mean

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• The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.

  Andre Breton

  Hands, Levels, Crowds

  "Not Numb" by Madeleine Watts, logger.believermag.com. March 25, 2016.

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• The ayatollah in Iran says he believes that he got the letter, but he thinks he accidentally threw it out with his Crate & Barrel catalog.

  David Letterman

  Believe, Thinking, Iran

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• You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Gun, Empty

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• Death and life were not
  Till man made up the whole,
  Made lock, stock and barrel
  Out of his bitter soul

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Soul

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.428, Hayes Barton Press

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• When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

  Mark Twain

  Prayer, Odds, Waiting

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Collector's Library

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• A Saudi Arabian prince has said that oil may never again rise above $100 a barrel. He said it's gotten so bad he can't afford to buy his wife her own car that she's not allowed to drive.

  Conan O'Brien

  Oil, Wife, Car

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• Once you do a joke and it works it's only good for so long, like shooting fish in a barrel.

  Bill Burr

  Long, Shooting, Working It

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind - I've always loved it.

  Xavier Rudd

  Dad, Good Day, Feet

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