Al Barr Quotes
No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.
Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.
Honestly, a lot of the human etiquette I learned in life I learned from, like, thank-you notes and dating Jimmy Kimmel.
I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.
Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.
My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes.
I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"
The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.
When I was little, that was one thing that I was told in a vision: I was going to have my own show when I grew up. And it's going to be funny.
I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."
It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.("The Vengeance Of The Dead")
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.
A visit to the family farm in spring means witnessing growth and challenge and beauty and stillness all rolled into one.
The exhilarating alignment of the heavens was sufficiently rare that she recognized her moment of joy, thus making the joy that much more potent.
In life, when you have a partner–someone you can rely on and trust with everything that you are–there isn’t anything you can’t accomplish. I will always be there for you, if you let me.
Hate was the blazing beauty that consumed the world in its flames. Love could never consume anything but the heart of a fool.
Every minute I decide not to kill you is a minute your life is saved. You owe me everything.
Loss is a knife, constantly cutting, but over time the blade dulls, and the cuts aren't as sharp. It's always there in the drawer, but you realize it doesn't cut as deeply anymore.
I have woken up inside one of my own memories. I am really here, yet I know I am not.
From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.
I liked to count my blessings in a world where they were so few, and he was one of mine.
What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.
I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.
A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke
That’s the thing about living on the earth – we humans can make all sorts of decisions and plans, but at the end of the day, the earth always gets the last word.
Fading from consciousness is the fact that we all needed help in the beginning
Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.
The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.
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.
You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.
Who ever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
I do kabbalistic meditation. It's not unlike time travel it can change the past and not just the future. You can look at what was lost and go beyond the grief of what was lost.