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Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner

Barley malt has a really deep, rich taste. A lot of manufacturers have switched over to corn syrup over the years because it's a cheaper sweetener, but it doesn't have the flavor.
‐‐ Nell Newman

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
‐‐ David F. Houston

Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

'Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked.
‐‐ James Cromwell

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
‐‐ Barry McGuigan

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.
‐‐ Trey Songz

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.
‐‐ Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America's most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America's most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes.
‐‐ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.
‐‐ Cynthia Weil

Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan had tremendous influence on generations of American because, even if people disagreed with them, they admired them because they made very strong commitments to things they believed in.
‐‐ Phil Crane

Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.
‐‐ Cynthia Weil

Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in 'Rain Man' as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.
‐‐ Maurice Gibb

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.
‐‐ Jon Landau

Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.
‐‐ Mayer Hawthorne

Bart The Bear was fantastic to work with. Absolutely brilliant and so, so good. The things that that bear could do to order! He was one of the best actors I've ever worked with.
‐‐ Gwendoline Christie

Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
‐‐ Joel Coen

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
‐‐ Henry Chadwick

BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.
‐‐ Ueli Gegenschatz

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.
‐‐ J. R. Moehringer

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.
‐‐ Thierry Henry

Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.
‐‐ Gene Mauch

Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.
‐‐ Pete Rose

Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
‐‐ J. R. Moehringer

Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on Rosh Hashana, and Bucky Dent hit one into the screen at Fenway Park. Supply your own moral.
‐‐ George Vecsey

Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am sure there is not a single one of these who learned the game with the expectation of making it a business. There have been years in the life of each during which he must have ate and drank and dreamed baseball.
‐‐ John Montgomery Ward

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
‐‐ Babe Ruth

Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
‐‐ Bill James

Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need to heckle your team - that's what the other side is for!
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up.
‐‐ Ashley Monroe

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
‐‐ Rafael Palmeiro

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
‐‐ Al Spalding

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
‐‐ Ted Williams

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.
‐‐ John Montgomery Ward

Baseball guys tend to flock towards steaks.
‐‐ Curtis Granderson

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
‐‐ John Leonard

Baseball has all the money.
‐‐ Brett Hull

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
‐‐ Joe Torre

Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.
‐‐ Tom Golisano

Baseball has been very good to me.
‐‐ Roberto Clemente

Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
‐‐ John Madden

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
‐‐ Joe Torre