Al Barry Quotes

Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special.

Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.("The Undying Thing")

Modernity kills ghostly romance("The Undying Thing")

Oh, I'm not saying that alcohol is perfect. It has caused its share of problems. Russia is only one example.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.

I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish them for that.

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .

Practical wisdom, " Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.

The secret to happiness is low expectations.

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?.

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can.

Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction.

Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are.

Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these people win the Cold War?

Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there

Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.

The way to make your dreams come true is to absolutely believe in them.

The way to make your dreams come true is to start believing in them.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.

If a Greek woman tells you to do something, you do it.

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

Reading... a vacation for the mind....

I guess love laughs at history a little.

... once you start demonizing groups of people, when you make them the other, you can justify doing just about anything you want to the, can't you? Look at history if you don't believe me.

A child is never the author of his own history.

We all find means of anesthesia.

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

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

Every day is an adventure, or it's just some thing you do. It's your choice.

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.

But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.

We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

You are the belle of the ball tonight.” He said as he moved in closer. “How can you be so sinfully beautiful Mrs. Norman?

Women always cried. It was their last, best weapon. It made boyfriends apologize and husbands fold them in their arms. It made Daddy spend the extra money on the prom dress.

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s.

The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

it seems that man has learnednot to seenot to knowfor he's found the potof goldbut lost the rainbow...

I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum about the heart?

with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying