Al Barr Quotes

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.

I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good.

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice NEVER attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Forethought spares afterthought.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

Life is just a dream on the way to death.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

There isn't a problem on this earth that a doughnut cannot make better.

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.

Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to.

Being nuts is its own reward.

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error.

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

I'm a heterosexual. I don't know why I'm like this. I was just born this way.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.

I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.