Al Barry Quotes

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

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

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?

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.

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

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.

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

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

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

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

I like to be against the odds.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

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.

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

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

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

A secret society within a secret society.

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

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

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

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

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

I'm very much a family person.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over.

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.