Al Barry Quotes

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing.

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

I really love peace and quiet.

Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.

All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen.

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

I don't know the right way to retire.

I just felt like I had run out of steam. I just felt like it was my time.

Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.

Please try not to be such a wiener-head.

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

...Hell, which as every frequent traveler knows, is in Concourse D of O'Hare Airport.

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions in search of problems.

There are also a number of humans living up there (Canada), and in many ways they have a lifestyle quite similar to ours, including such traditional American activities as driving Japanese cars.

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

I've been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture finished and put inside boxes.

This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).

You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Megahertz: This is really, really big hertz.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.