Quotes About Barker

small-town bankers like Justin Barker

The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.

He was a windblown blossom of some two hundred pounds with freckled teeth and the mellow voice of a circus barker. He was tough, fast and he ate red meat. Nobody could push him around. He was the kind of cop who spits on his blackjack every night instead of saying his prayers. But he had humorous eyes.

People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved - privately. It's the forbidden evil working behind the curtain. My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent.

Walk the midway and hear the carnival barker. Come see the freak named after his deceased father. Come see the prince who wants to abdicate his throne. Come see the son whose name is carved on a gravestone.

For me the cosmic aeons lie complete, O Love, between thy forehead and thy feet!

I fainted last night! Luckily I was going to bed at the time so I didn't get hurt.

There are so few who are men worthy of praise in this dreadful life: Mr. McMahon is one who immediately comes to mind; Billy Shakespeare is another, Bob Barker, god rest his soul - wait, he's not passed yet has he? Drat, take that one off, I suppose.

Judith you bid $12,000 for the The Train Depot. And the actual retail price is: $11,999. You are over by $1!

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

Among his memories of the whole and the human, sharpest was that of Decker.

He stood dressed in voluminous robes of thrice-burned silk (the blackest, most portentous; the silk of all melancholias) and studied the lightless waters of the Izabella as the barge sped on.

Speculative horror has become our generation's most viable tradition of the passed story.

Well, she's lucky. She still has her little dominion here in Coldheart Canyon.

God's an astronaut Oz is over the rainbow and Median is where the monsters live.

You're a monster, do you know that?" "Yes, oddly enough, I do." He threw his arm across Patroclus's shoulders. "Come on, let's eat.

A Bible-quoting group of killers. I don't like it, Barker rumbled, his chin buried in his coat. Murder and faith make nasty bedfellows.

And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

Solving a real problem was much more meaningful than saving fictional souls from a fictional hell.

But like a pretty pleated skirt at a country dance, Lily flounced right on out.

What made the day surreal was the person President Obama was handing the keys over to. It wasn't his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as we all had thought. It was a carnival barker who had ascended to the presidency by sheer bravado, bullshit, and outright lies.

You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. to former Enron CEO Keny Lay