Al Barry Quotes

We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list.

What you think determines your outlook on life. What you do determines your destiny.

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

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 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 wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Always drink at least 8 ounces of water or a sugar-free decaffeinated beverage with every meal or snack. If you are a heavy caffeine user, gradually reduce caffeine intake to zero whenever possible.

I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

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.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Let's just win it and go home.

Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.

I’ve noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.