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When one hits the bottom of the Desperation Barrel, there is always someone down there -- Kelli Jae Baeli
Larry the Cable Guy has signed a deal with Cracker Barrel. Not the store. He signed a deal with a barrel full of angry rednecks. -- Andy Kindler
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
It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it. -- Deborah Eisenberg
Maple. MaypoleCatch and carry.Ash and Ember.Elderberry.Woolen. Woman.Moon at night.Willow. Window.Candlelight.Fallow farrow.Ash and oak.Bide and borrow.Chimney smoke.Barrel. Barley.Stone and stave.Wind and water.Misbehave. -- Patrick Rothfuss
If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No. -- Alan Sugar
Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening Lick the blood that covers me She's the last one standing "Roulette" Collateral Damage, Track 11 -- Gayle Forman
I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making. -- Alan Jackson
You know how Mexican restaurants always have "border" in the name: Border Grill, Border Cafe. You wouldn't do that to black people: Kunta's Kitchen or Shackles. They don't do it to white people. You don't see the Honkey Grill, the Cracker Barrel... oh, nevermind. -- George Lopez
Maple. MaypoleCatch and carry.Ash and Ember.Elderberry.Woolen. Woman.Moon at night.Willow. Window.Candlelight.Fallow farrow.Ash and oak.Bide and borrow.Chimney smoke.Barrel. Barley.Stone and stave.Wind and water.Misbehave.Maple. MaypoleCatch and carry.Ash and Ember.Elderberry.Woolen. Woman.Moon at night.Willow. Window.Candlelight.Fallow farrow.Ash and oak.Bide and borrow.Chimney smoke.Barrel. Barley.Stone and stave.Wind and water.Misbehave. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. -- Mao Zedong
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun. -- Helen Thomas
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. -- Mark Twain
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. -- Gore Vidal
I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together. -- Leonard Cohen
Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood. -- John Wycliffe
Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession. -- Fareed Zakaria
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. -- Harry Seidler
It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film. -- William Shatner
We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house. -- Moshe Dayan
I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10. -- Jon Meacham
I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed. -- Owen Hart
I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one. -- George Galloway
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it. -- Stan Musial
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. -- Rick Danko
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. -- Henry Rollins
Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal. -- Benigno Aquino III
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. -- Warren Buffett
People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there. -- Jennifer Lopez
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence. -- Annie Dillard
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. -- James Buchan
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it. -- Vinod Khosla
Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
All you need is a double barrel -- Joe Biden
The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible. -- Christopher Flavin
It's good to find the barrel of the bat again. -- Chase Utley
You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. -- Helen Thomas
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music. -- Van Wyck Brooks
When your holding a double barrel shotgun use both barrels. -- JR
There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples. -- William Shakespeare
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. -- John Lyly
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun. -- Tahereh Mafi
I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are. -- Fred Eaglesmith
If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel. -- Ann Landers
With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Im straight... But my girl a faggot... Potato on the barrel... Potato salad -- Lil Wayne
There's going to be no compromise on repealing Obamacare lock, stock and barrel. -- Mike Pence
Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs. -- Malalai Joya
Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty! -- Leonard Ravenhill
A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar. -- Saint Francis de Sales
If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb -- Ian Holloway
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. -- Henry Ward Beecher
You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income -- Anton Siluanov
...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel. -- Andrew Sullivan
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. -- Hendrik Willem van Loon
If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head. -- Jim Hightower
Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap. -- Randy Pausch
Genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel of a gun. -- Dalai Lama
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. -- Saint Francis de Sales
A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety. -- Daniel Yergin
My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care. -- Elton John
I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care. -- John McCain
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad. -- Isabel Yosito
You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief. -- Lionel Tiger
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil. -- Paul Gillmor
I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices. -- Mario Batali
I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing. -- Keith Stanfield
Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made. -- Rodney Crowell
Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel. -- Evelyn Waugh
You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole. -- Lenny Bruce
I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load. -- Hedda Hopper
Once you do a joke and it works it's only good for so long, like shooting fish in a barrel. -- Bill Burr
When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me. -- Greta Gerwig
Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul -- William Butler Yeats
I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish. -- Carl Hiaasen
The world should forget about cheap oil. [The price] will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel. -- Hugo Chavez
She's been a barrel of bitchy monkeys since Jordan and I walked out of the Arrivals gate together earlier this afternoon. -- Victoria Denault
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. -- J.P. Donleavy
In her first game of high-stakes diplomatic poker, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leaving the table dressed only in a barrel. -- Tim LaHaye
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility. -- Desmond Tutu
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine. -- Robert Fabyan
The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it. -- Ronald Reagan
Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford. -- Ambrose Bierce
I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off. -- Nora Roberts
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
Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer. -- Hermann Goring
Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel. -- Richard Russo
The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer. -- Bob Beauprez
As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel. -- Kevin Keegan
Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over. -- Elinor Wylie
If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun. -- Chuck Norris
How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it. -- Michael Moore
The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics. -- Kenneth R. Miller
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
If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200. -- Hugo Chavez
The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. -- John McCain
There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall. -- Suzanne Crowley
You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry. -- Huey Long
now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound. -- William Butler Yeats
Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers. -- Lenny Bruce
... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea. -- Anna Julia Cooper
Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily, it's just a temporary thing. -- Jay Leno
...I'm very pleased when the smartest people come [to the U.S.] and almost never pleased when the very bottom of the mental barrel comes in.... -- Charlie Munger
I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out. -- Warren Buffett
Relationships are like apples: they can be sweet and satisfying. But once you bite into a bad one, it's hard to go back to the barrel again. -- John Avery
[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom. -- L. Neil Smith
Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source. -- Rick Perry
Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free. -- Jay Leno
I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it. -- Colin Baker
There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise. -- Francis Thompson
There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets. -- Carlos Santana
You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it. -- George Singleton
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
Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it. -- Robert Frost

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