Connecting with people, making small talk, attempting to remember the dozens of steps for a myriad of processes – all this jumbles my mind and messes with my concentration most days. 25 Rice Drive Why this senseless rush, this mad pursuit, this frantic competition, this pace that kills? Andy Taylor: [after learning Barney has spilled the beans about the gold shipment] Somewhere between here and Denver is seven million dollars headed for Mayberry, and you and me and Gomer and Laura Lee Hobbs, we're gonna' receive it. Floyd Lawson: Maude! Opie Taylor: Sure, just yesterday I gave my friend Jimmy something. Deputy Barney Fife: I still say, five minutes behind the barn!
Goober Pyle: Are you sayin' I don't like music? Goober Pyle: Be glad to.
Barney Fife: Well, I guess to sum it up, you could say, there's three reasons why there's so little crime in Mayberry. That joke, “Patience isn’t really my thing,”? Floyd Lawson: What do you mean? Time wasn’t wasted or allotted for rest on weekdays. Sheriff Andy Taylor: Well yes you are, too... [Just after Sheriff Andy Taylor arrested Jim Lindsey, they practiced playing guitars of same rhythm and song]. Barney Fife: [Barney is writing a song, doesn't know Andy is standing behind him, sung to the tune of Clementine] In a jailhouse/down in dixie/fighting crime and risking lives/live a sheriff/ and his buddy pistol packing Barny Fife. Briscoe Darling: Briscoe: I can take a bossy mouth, but I ain't about to be beat to death with no spoon. Sheriff Andy Taylor: [Addressing the Darling boys after meeting their newborn niece] You boys must be pretty proud to be uncles? The Andy Griffith Show. Aunt Bee Taylor: Well, you didn't say anything. Box 213 Bethel, Ohio 45106. Are you going to question a whim? Bobby Fleet: Never mind I don't care what the fine is. Floyd Lawson: If I keep this up I'll probably end up with a barber's claw from holding the shears all day. With the advancement of technology the door to accessing more and wanting more just creates less time to take that Sunday break.
Same old train that brought me here. Then one day there/came a ridin'/two bad men to rob a bank. Big Maude Tyler: What made you change your mind? Everything we eat goes to muscle.
Opie Taylor: I don't want to say. We'll fix him up with a diploma and everything. Why do we only pause to create posts and memes of extraordinary things before tripping over ourselves to find the newest, shiniest commodity?
You made an illegal u-turn YOURSELF! My childhood centered around primetime TV classics such as The Andy Griffith Show, M.A.S.H., Magnum P.I., Batman – yes, the 1960s version – and Star Trek: The Next Generation. I am guilty to some degree, just as we all are. Something you didn't want anything in return for? Now take down those disease signs, Nelvin. Andy Taylor: Floyd, what do you know about whiplash? Unless you run away with fright. [to Andy] Who said it? I have heard many folks say that in those years life moved a little slower and we could enjoy what we had around us. Why, even if I weren't a policeman, I would still arrest you for making a illegal U-turn... any person can do that, you know... it's called a citizen's arrest.
[Gomer has made a citizens arrest on Barney]. Andy Taylor: [to Emmett] You blew it. Forget the part about the half a boy. Emmett barges in and proceeds to install a reading lamp on the wall above Andy's bed: Andy: "Emmett, am I in your way?" Sheriff Andy Taylor: Well, did Hogette come on out with ya? Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Emmett Clark: You may like music as much as I do. I hate that all these problems seem like complaining (I give a shout out to my best friend for gambling everyday when she asks me how I am doing then patiently listening to all my issues), but I know if I let them fester in my mind and continue waging unchecked war inside me, I will find myself broken in both body and spirit again. Aunt Bee Taylor: Did you like the white beans you had for supper? The first rule is... Obey all rules.
Last week, everything that could go south did. This is Sheriff Taylor! Sheriff Andy Taylor: I just don't know what to do. Otis was drunk.
A Townsman: [Talking about the sidecar] Sheriff, if you fill it up with water you can take a bath on the way. My hands may still shake, my heart still race, and my mind swirl in circles, but I can at least breathe. Floyd Lawson: [while looking at himself in the mirror] Wretch, wretch!
Deputy Barney Fife: You work with a person long enough you get as goofy as he is! Now, look Sheriff, there's no reason to get hot over the collar for this. The joy and serenity of just sitting and listening? You're the best guitar player I ever heard.
They want people who have had musical training. Andy Taylor: [telling Opie and his friends the story of Paul Revere] And he said, "The British is comin, the British is comin! info@peoplesdefender.com Ernest T. Bass: Right. Barney Fife: Andy, I've this one dead to rights!
Otis Campbell: Oh, don't act so sad. No we weren’t from the south but we had the feeling that nothing was so important that it couldn’t wait until Monday. ( Log Out / Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. We're playing at the capitol, over the weekend. That was when shopping malls opened for one thing. Andy Taylor: Goober, Cary Grant wasn't in 'Picnic'. A simple, innocent pleasure. No hick Sheriff is going to bleed me. Andy Taylor: Let her go off somewhere else... gig some other frog. Darling, you don't think he'd try to kidnap Charlene before the wedding? Barney Fife: Now here at "The Rock" we have two basic rules. [Deputy, Barney Fife, came in to jailhouse, during second guitar instrumental, of Jim Lindsey and Andy Taylor], [Jim Lindsey played his guitar, as Barney and Andy started singing together]. ( Log Out / Sheriff Andy Taylor: Oh, I didn't think we'd have time for music. Goober Pyle: What are you doin' with a Raleigh paper? That is for you to decide, but it seems there is so much more to do and we are so much busier these days. Andy Taylor: Well, I caught him earlier on a 10-17. [Andy, Barney and the recruiting sergeant watch as Ernest T. Bass incur his wrath on Mayberry for not getting into the Army]. The full schedule, and the split second – these are the gauges of success. Then you'd have a riot. Floyd Lawson: What'd Calvin Coolidge say? Charlie!
[shouts] Do it! Ramona 'Romeena' Ankrum: It rained last week, ya know? A business traveler is stranded in Mayberry with car trouble. Granted, the Space Race and old-fashioned band concerts are outdated references, but the heart of the message remains truly relevant. 'Cause I don't want to. He inspires everyone to have an old-time band concert. PFC Dudley A.
Floyd Lawson: Your sideburns - what's the matter with your sideburns? Floyd Lawson: I thought Calvin Coolidge said that. Barney Fife: Yeah, well, today's eight-year-olds are tomorrow's teenagers.
Don’t let your hearts be troubled.
The mood was better and all had more energy. Name: Al Becker (character=Andy) Date: 11/26/99 14:24:01 MS Andy's home sick in bed.