Barney's Version Movie Quotes & Sayings

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. — John Stuart Mill

My friend Jack Wagner has often, in Mexico, assumed this state of being. Let us say we wanted to walk in the streets of Mexico ity but not at random. We would choose some article almost certain not to exist there and then diligently try to find it. — John Steinbeck

I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure. — Jessica Hahn

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say. — Trent Reznor

There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them. — Victor Niederhoffer

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid. — Herman Melville

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear. — Percival Lowell

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat. — Jane Fonda

Human language falls short of expressing all that He is, even as a thimble lacks capacity to hold Niagara Falls. — Blake Western

Men can always fight, Your Grace. Ask rather if we can win. Dying is easy, but victory comes hard. — George R R Martin

You are an old soul, fortunately housed in very lovely wrapping. — Michael Callahan