Al Barry Quotes

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them.

Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

I'm a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

Some people are born on third base.

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that’s the only way I would do it.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

Each year, millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

The advantage of the rain is that, if you have a quick bike, there's no advantage.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

You can't hate anybody till you hate yourself and you can't love anybody till you love yourself.