Barn Quotations

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one

I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.

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.

What we're seeing in the Panhandle right now is a big barn raising, we're seeing people come together through various forms, through various charitable funds, various charitable donations. We're seeing neighbors helping neighbors.

We're running out of time. Can you imagine an America without a barn on the landscape? Is that the America we want?

What the state government said, unless it falls into some other category, if someone breaks into a neighbor's barn and steals a $4,000 ATV, he's going to go to county jail unless he has a prior felony or is on probation when it happened, ... If someone, however, breaks into 18 churches, this may be considered a pattern, this is not just, 'oops, I made a mistake.'

Olivier in his last years kept all his papers in great big stage hampers in a barn at his country place in Sussex.

I did it more out of caution than anything. I was the one who self-quarantined. I told the stewards I was scratching everything in the barn and said I was going to self-quarantine until I got back that blood test.

I can't remember when we didn't get along. Mother had a rule that if we fought, no matter who started it, she'd spank us both. We'd go to laborious pains to sneak off for a fight somewhere she wouldn't catch us, and by the time we got to the barn or wherever, we'd lose our steam and forget about it.

If something is wrong, it is like locking the barn door after the horse is stolen, ... But we are still going to pursue it. I want to know what they bought with the money.

He looked around, he looked ahead and he could almost see the opening at that point he could almost smell the barn and I noticed his stroke picked up and he got past that one moment that all endurance athletes have to go through. He put his head down, he tucked his chin and did it,

We made some mistakes, but it's typical Upper Perk. They don't quit. It's not the first time we've been in a barn burner with them.

He was in a very good position, tracking. And when Robby called on him, he just exploded. To have a horse like him in the barn is a treat.

It bore absolutely no resemblance to the 'rude cabin' described by racial detractors, ... and was surrounded by a bake house, a milk house, a smokehouse, a chicken house with '44 big hens,' a workhouse, a cow house, and a barn that housed '30 big horned beasts.'

I think we're going to edge our way higher but I don't think it's going to be a barn burning.

I think they charged me about $20,000 for it. The kids sort of thought it was fun, because there were animals in the barn and so on.

My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.

I was there so long, I remember when we were stationed out of a barn at Redwood Acres.

(Manchester) is a tough barn to win in, and we've got to come back the next night in Hartford, another tough barn, and then in Springfield, which has had our number.

Whoa, man. You're talking about a barn burner. We didn't come out with the most enthusiasm and we had three questionable fumbles, and it ended up that we were down 21-0 at the half, before we even knew what had happened.

Whoa, man. You're talking about a barn burner,

We do have quite a bit, but we buy it from the state and the state says you have to buy so much each year to be able to continue to buy it. Fortunately, we built a big salt barn a few years ago. We will have some outside that we'll cover up, but most of it will be in the salt barn.

We had a little crisis when Matt and Sarah had to replace their shower curtain liner and we said no. But we put the word out and someone found one for them. It's like the Amish - we help each other out. We raise a barn every week.

We are delighted to see the situation progressing the way we had hoped. The fact we will be back to normal training hours and have another barn released at Pimlico is good news for all. We feel confident we are reaching the end of the road regarding the virus, and look forward to the day when we are back to 100% normalcy.

Unfortunately, the horse is out of the barn in far too many cases. And I don't think the TCEQ is willing to corral those horses back to comply.

We were in the middle of building the barn and one lake, for the horses, when I became ill.

The pig is already out of the barn as far as the effects of the yield curve on net interest margins. Margins will probably get modestly worse, but it won't be dramatic because the real negative impact has been absorbed.

When 'The Walking Dead' has been its best, all that stuff is happening at once: the emotion, action, horror, scares. I'm very proud that I was able to write an episode where a little zombie girl could walk out of a barn after a horrific zombie execution and have people cry. That's one of the proudest things I've ever done.

We plan on blowing the barn doors out of this petition.

We do deal with massive amounts of data on a regular basis, and we have a high degree of competence. But sometimes, one of the cats you're herding to the barn gets away from you.

We'd like to have the barn quilt project up and done by October.

We had to build a new barn and new fencing and be ready to house and feed guests who eat an awful lot and are coming to stay.

We just got to clean things up...You've got to put the hay in the barn and get ready to play on Saturday.

We won a game up there last year that was a barn burner, that went down to the last seconds, so I'm sure in their minds, they have something to prove. In our minds, we have something to prove about the caliber of team that we are and the steps that we've made so far this year.

We try to connect with people as much as we can. We love our fans. We would be just five guys jamming in a barn or whatever venue without the fans.

We think it's appalling that an animal like this, a social animal, should be kept alone in a dark barn for 10 months. That's virtually half of its life, and that's no way to treat an animal.

We should have pride in people coming to our barn in front of our fans. Hopefully that will be the case because we don't have too many games left at home.

We are still trying to get a handle on this. What if we find a couple of dead birds or a barn full of sick animals? We are trying to figure out the risk to the state.

We could see the storm approaching and were hustling to get to the barn and get the hay covered with a couple of large tarps. We drove right past the house and didn't notice anything wrong.

Every farmer designs a barn for himself ... so they're distinctive. By and large, every barn is unique.

At this point in the season, it's important for people to determine whether their property is adequate and safe for a horse or another type of livestock during a hurricane. If you are concerned your barn is not sufficient, you need to make provisions ahead of time.

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.

It wouldn't be unfair to say that not only is the horse out of the barn but Finance has no idea where the horse has gone.

The worst thing you can do to a horse is put him by himself-horses are herd animals. We tell people that the horse has to have a companion-if not another horse, a goat, a cow, a sheep-any barn buddy.

The winner is very impressive and a very great-looking horse that we thought would win if we didn't. I didn't expect to run third, but he did gallop out well after the race and came back to the barn in very good shape.

These are the types of buildings that people rely on for their livelihood, yet there are very few incentives like this grant program out there to make a historically sensitive barn rehab pencil out.

The second half should be a barn burner, ... We've had a good lengthy correction and sentiment has been problematic. There's no irrational exuberance in these stocks.

These doors are beautifully deceptive, replicating traditional, swinging barn door styles, but open overhead like any other modern garage door.

The seller said that you can be pretty sure that the property was a very prosperous farm to have such a great barn there. The fact that the posts are oak and the rest is white pine is also very unusual and points to a wealthy landowner.

A few of those wagons, if I had a place to move them to I would, but if I start saving stuff I'd have a whole barn full like I do now, so I'm kind of going to look the other way.

Some people laugh when they see the barn because of the TV and the air conditioner we installed. We spent a lot of time out there so we tried to be comfortable.

Detroit's always Detroit, but we're going to have a lot of new faces that weren't there for the rivalry. There's always that little edge going into that barn because of the fans, and there's always a little bit of a hatred.

Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.

Anybody can play with anybody, I think. Our tournament next weekend (Sept. 30 -- which will feature many of those teams) will be a real barn burner. It should be a really good tournament.

Another trainer told me that he'd never heard of two honor role titles coming out of the same barn on separate horses.

The bottom line is that since barn 14 was no longer a security barn and he would have to be moved on race day anyhow, I thought it would be a better situation in Barn 5. Since there were three stalls available there, it worked out perfectly.

Your family at the bus barn will miss you. There will be a big void there without you on bus number 20.

This isn't a county sale barn where we're bidding on a prize heifer. There is more we need to do. We need reform,

They were hanging on the fence and he didn't get shook up, unlike me and Cecil. The Derby is different. You have to get used to the media horde and the barn area. It's hard to imagine what it will be like. You need to get in there 10 days early.

A lot of people are doing it now without needing a lot of barn space. They can raise them on pasture with intensive grazing. So they don't need a lot of hard facilities (to raise sheep). They are relatively small in size." ()

A lot of people want to build a new home that looks like it's 100 years old. The look of hand-hewn wood and barn wood -- it's hard to duplicate what nature does. It's hard to get an authentic look.

They have been painting the barn red and white, chasing skunks from the stage, clearing bird nests from the spotlights, scraping mildew from costumes and very gingerly, in the manner of city slickers, shooing snakes out of the yard.

They are back here again, hundreds of them. Swallows barn swallows, tree swallows, banks swallows, rough wing swallows all birds that normally would have gone a long time ago.

This means we are still dealing with an active herpes outbreak but all the animals in Barn 8 have all shown improvement. Things have also stabilized in Barn 5 where we have not had a sick animal since Monday.

There's a herd of about 500 cattle in pens very near to the barn and we're hoping the fire doesn't reach them.

They're filling the barn every night and all we want to do is win for them.

It was a much nicer work today. The light is starting to go on, and in his mannerisms around the barn he's perked up a little bit. Frisco Star is not as professional as a horse like Lost in the Fog. He takes a little more asking.

It rained like heck. We toured the farm in a van and sat on bales of hay in a barn and ate country food.

It's kind of hard to pack up a whole barn full of animals. And I knew that any animal I left behind would be dead in 24 hours.

It just makes it look older. That's kind of what they made for decoration back then. Back in the older days, there was always some type of skin hanging on the barn walls.

It's like shutting the barn door after the horse escaped,

It's really hard to give any thought to the concerns before we have a concept plan developed. Size and services offered would determine what type of facility we build and whether or not horses would be kept there overnight, or if there would be a hay barn or feed barn on site.

Design engineers are going to design the roadway to minimize impacts. Some people might say, my home or barn or business is directly under that line. Well, once the designers start, they might be able to design it to where that home or business or barn is not taken or impacted in that way.

Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away

Conditions at Pimlico and Laurel continue to progress in a positive manner. Today's news at Bowie does not change our plans to try to clear Barn 5 at Pimlico next week after test results are returned.

The next day they noticed that there was a blanket in the sheep barn and some sticks. A candle was found yesterday afternoon on top of a heater in the barn.

Sticks poked holes in the siding. It's not much damage, not like the barn and shed.

The barn really smelled like a barn with all the hay.

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.

Taylor's Day was a barn favorite. Eight of 10 times if you hooked up the top the lane, you knew you were going to get your picture taken, get your feet dirty, because you were going to the winner's circle.

It was a barn burner, two teams that just shot the ball well. Both teams were very aggressive.

They couldn't hit the broad side of a barn before that. But then they got jacked up, and the balls just started dropping one after another. I wound up giving out 20 or 30 tickets. But it was worth it.

In December 2003, after pulling their heads out of the sand, the Department of Agriculture closed the barn door after the mad cow had already escaped, ... This bill will ensure that the door is never opened again to abusing sick animals, jeopardizing the public health, threatening the American consumer's confidence in the safety of our meat and potentially undermining a valuable sector of our economy.

I'm in the sheep business, not the barn business.

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.

If you had a totally clean canvas, 44 cars and 22 owners would be the best thing. But the horse is already out of the barn on that one.

In the end, it's not going to have very much impact. We've closed the barn door after the horse is gone.

I heard crackling that sounded just like the saplings breaking in the ice storm we had last year. Then I heard a boom and the sheep and dogs. When I opened my blurry eyes, I could see the glow and knew the barn was on fire.

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me.

closing the barn door after everything is out.

Because he was obedient and said, 'Yes,' God took him out of that dairy barn and literally took him around the world.

He's not a typical Storm Cat in that he has a great mind. You wouldn't know that he was in the barn until he's around the gate or right after the race. He gets a little pumped up. When Todd ran him the first time and he won, when they got him back to the winner's circle he reared straight up on his hind legs. Johnny actually had to come off of him. They put Johnny back on and he did it again. So now we're pretty cautious because you don't want to get him hurt for something stupid like a photo. But ever since then, he's gotten better.

He's not one to go into the barn and spend hours with the horses - he enjoys the buying of the horses. He comes and looks at the horses with me and we go to the sales together there and at the races.

You know that saying about the hay being in the barn? Well, just because the hay's in there doesn't mean the barn door is closed.

These guys are all under 2 years old and are adjusting well. The females are out in the habitat, but Congo is a bit hesitant. He is still loitering around in the barn facility, but he'll be out moving about within a day or two.

The Elephant Sanctuary exists for two reasons. To provide a haven for old, sick or needy elephants in a setting of green pastures, old-growth forests, spring-fed ponds and a heated barn for cold winter nights. And to provide education about the crisis facing these social, sensitive, passionately intense, playful, complex, exceedingly intelligent and endangered creatures.

You want to be going into their barn with the two points. We've done that, but we know how important the next two points are. We don't want to lose what ground we gained, so we're going to have to come out hard.

The Cliff carried the whole barn on his shoulders today.

Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.