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Barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon. -- Mizuta Masahide
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing. -- Candace Bushnell
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.' -- Candace Bushnell
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn. -- Walton Goggins
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn." -- Walton Goggins
I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee. -- Jen Lancaster
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed. -- Paul Engle
The moon is brighter since the barn burned. -- Matsuo Basho
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. -- Sam Rayburn
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. -- Sam Rayburn
We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings. -- Chuck Palahniuk
If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will? -- Ross Perot
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -- Johnny Carson
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn. -- Hesiod
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. -- Walter Scott
This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it? -- Spencer Tracy
Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. -- Meryl Streep
Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped. -- Loretta Lynn
I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn. -- Antony Gormley
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation. -- Saadi
I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did. -- Mickey Rooney
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something. -- John Prescott
After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn. -- Wendell Berry
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable. -- Ingrid Newkirk
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies. -- Tom Robbins
A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. -- James Thomas Fields
When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre. -- Andre Leon Talley
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. -- Bob Feller
I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny. -- Neko Case
I wouldn't touch Chimbonda with a barn door -- Alan Brazil
Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn. -- Mojo Nixon
It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone. -- John Heywood
Itâ??s what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn. -- Adrian Rogers
Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn. -- Don DeLillo
Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack. -- Robert Jordan
Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us. -- Steve Staunton
My head is like some ridiculous barn packed full of stuff I want to write about. -- Haruki Murakami
You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn. -- Sylvia Plath
I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You got barn cats and you want to make them tamed, you need to get them as kittens. -- Temple Grandin
The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn. -- Coventry Patmore
The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark. -- Parke Godwin
My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like. -- Debi Mazar
having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad. -- Jack Kevorkian
Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after. -- Hesiod
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks. -- Garth Brooks
I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow. -- E. B. White
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. -- Anouk Aimee
You might be a redneck if you think Silence of the Lambs is what happens when Larry walks out to the barn. -- Jeff Foxworthy
The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn. -- David Aaron Kessler
If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone -- Stephen King
You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day. -- Don Meyer
You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there. -- Genevieve Gorder
You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice. -- Dana Carvey
There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing. -- Anthony Lane
I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding. -- Rick Yancey
I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer. -- Chevy Stevens
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. -- Robert Lowell
You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise of good barn-sorting epistemic competence. -- Ernest Sosa
You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs 'round over yonder, back'ah Bubba's barn... -- Jeff Foxworthy
In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself bleed a lot. I'm very accident-prone. -- Greg Wise
No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective. -- Nikita Khrushchev
I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully. -- Richard Dean Anderson
Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away. -- Walt Whitman
When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed. -- Ann Romney
One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me. -- Tod Machover
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views. -- Albert Einstein
That's my dream to be old enough and mature enough that I won't be considered an "old lady" if I have a house with a barn. Because I already do needlepoint. -- Emmy Rossum
Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs. -- E. B. White
Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger. -- Joanna Southcott
Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant. -- Taylor Dayne
I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next. -- James Taylor
I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn. -- Dolly Parton
The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central. -- Lenny Bruce
Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but it has a mini stage and a red velvet curtain. -- Philippe Petit
I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance. -- Victoria Wood
The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there. -- Tod Machover
The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words. -- Paul Engle
I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe. -- Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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