Al Barry Quotes

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

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

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

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

I don't know the right way to retire.

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.

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

I really love peace and quiet.

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.

Love is two minds without a single thought.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.

Celtic have scored in the 50th consecutive game in which they've managed to score

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

A secret society within a secret society.

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too "cool" or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

I don't want to be a Major League coach.

I like to be against the odds.

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

There's not too many rich black people in this world.

The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.

When I was playing, it would be whatever role I wanted. Now it's whatever they ask me to do, which I kind of like better.

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

We only have one person to blame, and that's each other.

We did not underestimate what we could do.

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation.

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.

I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started

One I'm deeply into is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." I was the only person in the US who hadn't read it.

If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.

Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it.