Quotes About Barrel

Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)

I'm getting into single malt whisky.

When the charge exploded, gases filled the hollow cone and pushed the soft walls of the cup towards the walls of the barrel. Pressed against the barrel, the bullet filled the grooves, and there was no windage.

Did you ever hear someone say this: "It was more fun than a barrel of monkeys." Did you ever smell a barrel of monkeys?

Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.

You look tired, Rachel told Jason. I wish I could jog and sleep at the same time. Can't you? Ferrin asked, joining them at the little cascade. I always imagined that you could sleep rolling down a mountainside in a barrel. I probably could today, Jason conceded.

Happier than a terrier in a barrel full of rats

The feelings I had for my sister were jumbled together, like the monkeys in a barrel game we'd had as children. All the brightly colored monkeys with their curved arms tangled and entwined, so convoluted that it was almost impossible to separate them.

Certain dives on New York City's Bowery offered as much as you could drink from a rubber hose connected to a liquor barrel until you had to stop to take a breath; this would set you back a mere three cents. For two cents more, however, certain places would provide a shot of whiskey and a woman to go with it.

I'm kind of jealous of people who haven't met you. If ignorance ever goes up to $5 a barrel, I want drilling rights to your head.

A barrel of laughs should be enough, but it's not. A good review is official and endures. A bad one is like a tub of Flora. It spreads easily and lasts for the whole festival.

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.

His life was a festival of excess that could not be contained. Deafening music, eye-popping bright colors, sugar added to almost everything he ate. Quinn's life was a bullet in a barrel ready to explode.

I went from barrel to barrel. It was magic. Why hadn't someone told me? With this, life was great, a man was perfect, nothing could touch him.

Fo' de Lawd!' he say, 'dat mule drunk! he be'n drinkin' de wine.' En sho' 'nuff, de mule had pas' right by de tub er fraish grape-juice en push' de kiver off'n de bairl, en drunk two er th'ee gallon er de wine w'at had been stan'in' long ernough fer ter begin ter git sha'p.

You're just trying to work on things in Spring Training, try to put the barrel on the ball and not peak too early.

This isn't really death,' Tyler says. 'We'll be legend. We won't grow old.' I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you're thinking of vampires.

With a gun barrel pressed between you're teeth, you speak only in vowels.

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

You're a fool, " Quinhelm accused. "Any man who would allow himself to be bewitched by a woman needs a good dunking in a cold barrel of water." (Quinhelm, the wizard, from BRIGGEN)

Her barrel of misery has depth enough to hold a thousand bushels of happiness.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

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.