Al Barry Quotes

The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond silt for brains, you want the long form.

Today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say "your child." MY child just wants to eat the toys.

Smee! Raise the Ladies!

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

Can we move this conversation along, I'm getting frightfully tired of 'hoa'.

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

Famous designers think nothing of putting their names on your clothing, but would have the servants set the dogs on you if you ever tried to put your name on their clothing.

The Olympic movement simply cannot allow the Russians to become estranged, because Russia is a vital part of the world sports community, in the sense of having nuclear missiles.

I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it a fascinating book. Keith's a pretty honest fellow.

If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.

When you say you don't think we should have public schools, they can't believe you mean that. You must mean that they should be smaller. But you can't really mean no public schools.

You don't want to see that happen on the pitch, it's only right to try and break it up.

John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish

The British invasion certainly made a lot of noise in the record industry.

The idea of making the industry live up to its legal responsibility is not going to die.

When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.

I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended!

It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared with the cause?

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

I remember my comic strips being called "new wave." It bugged me.

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

He's picked clean! Eaten by cats!

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid

You'll never call him Fifi again.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as you and me. What's with that?

Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.