Al Barry Quotes

Love and despair go hand in hand.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.

QVC has been very good to me.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

Only Experience Teaches You: You can't learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.

There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.

This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

The best time to go to Disney World, if you want to avoid huge crowds, is 1962.

Your friends love you anyway.

Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences.

But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth- of the books I'd probably love if I ever got to them.

As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex, puke-inducing holding patterns.

What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".

In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.

Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.

Never try to put all the chemicals in the entire world in your body at the same time.

I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn.

Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.

The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"

There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy.

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver.

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.

Your guess is as good as mine. Better probably, because you haven't had four beers.

I watched as an extremely nerdy exhibitor - I'm talking about a guy who makes Bill Gates look like Brad Pitt.

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.