Al Barry Quotes

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

What year is it in your imagination?

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes.

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

My mother told me, “Son, it is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.” I have tried very hard to heed those words.

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.

Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.

That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.

In my experience, if you go to a hospital for any reason whatsoever, including to read the gas meter, they give you a tetanus shot.

Jim Leighton is looking a sharp as a tank

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren’t trying to kill you.

Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing

We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place.