Home > Topic > Barney
1 " Lilac curled her upper lip in a dead-eyed sneer, and it made my skin crawl. The girl looked like she might fillet me and have me for a snack later. She made the Dale R. Fielding High School Cheer Squad look like Barney and Friends, and I vowed to give her a wide berth. "
― Veronica Wolff , Isle of Night (The Watchers, #1)
2 " If people fainted from too much thinking I’d scarcely ever be conscious,” Tabitha began at once. “I think and think all the time, and I’ve never fainted – not once.” She looked over at Barney enviously. “Why do the best things always happen to other people and not to a promising writer? "
― Margaret Mahy , The Haunting
3 " He was a strange mix of Heinrich Himmler and Barney the Dinosaur. "
― Jonas Eriksson , Everyday Psychopaths
4 " Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades. "
― Dean Cavanagh
5 " Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor. "
6 " As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. "
7 " Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney. "
