Top 318 Barrel Quotes & Sayings

Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.

I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are.

Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.

It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.

Every barrel of oil that we produce around the world benefits Americans because it keeps prices down. We can talk more later about American energy independence, but the facts are, every barrel we produce helps Americans because it keeps prices down.

Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.

The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

When your holding a double barrel shotgun use both barrels.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

There's going to be no compromise on repealing Obamacare lock, stock and barrel.

I stopped - just killed - President Obama's $10-a-barrel gas tax.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

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.

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.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the superior accuracy of a long rifle dates from colonial days, when the only way to extend sight radius was to make the barrel as long as possible. It is interesting how long it takes a myth to die.

I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust emerging China, many of you will recall, ramped up to near $150 a barrel. Then we had the financial - U.S. financial collapse. Oil prices collapsed all the way down to $40 a barrel.

I'm kind of a bottom-of-the-barrel guy.

If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb

If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me.

Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.

Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

When oil goes over $40 a barrel it's almost impossible for America to do well.

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.

I stick to stuff I'm pretty sure of and I know this: when the price of a barrel of oil is under $80 a barrel and you build a pipeline, you are driving up greenhouse gases.

People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'

There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

If my barrel meets the ball, I think good things are going to happen.

You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Stay inside the ball, put the barrel on it, and swing hard.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

You could pay a fair market price for a barrel of oil and cut 50 cents a barrel or a dollar barrel off what you're going to pay Mexico and use that money and put it towards to the building a wall. If they don't like it, too bad we're go buy the oil.

There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

All you need is a double barrel

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.