Al Barry Quotes
If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.
Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.
A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.
I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball.
Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.
The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.
I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.