Al Barry Quotes

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.

Toaster: A gift that every member of the family appreciates. Automatically burns toast.

You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind.

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.

The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.

Move fast and break things.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We just played baseball because it was fun.

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

Der, die, das, dem, den, des. German's six ways of saying 'the', like six sexual positions you never knew existed. Hey, I just sprung a boner.

I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.

The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.

Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens

Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else