Al Barry Quotes

Wind is what happens when air falls in love with itself.

Rocks are more co-operative than people.

But once you describe something, you destroy it.

I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I'll be free.

Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful people it attracts. It has never failed me yet.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

I just write mechanical things.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

I can count my friends on one hand.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.

We're all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads. The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.

The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes.

England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.

Sign outside a country shop: We buy junk and sell antiques.

This year, U.S. airlineswill carry a record 143 million passengers, who will be in the air for 382 million hours, during which they will be fed an estimated total of four peanuts.

When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!

Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they do not have to sign their names.

I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie.

Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.

If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires.

Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?

Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.

When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days.

The scrub sink...is the place where doctors wash their hands after they operate so that they won't get flecks of your vital organs on their Lexus upholstery.

If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows.

The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use.

Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.

The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing hilariously bad suits. Their leader was Josef Stalin (Russian for "Joey Bananas")

And now, the Superstore - unequaled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivaled inconvenience.

Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.

I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.