Barry Cryer Quotes

#1. Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

Barry Cryer

#2. Quick: noise made by a dyslexic duck

Barry Cryer

#3. There are more things to admire in men then to despise.

Albert Camus

#4. They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.

Barry Cryer

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

Barry Cryer

#6. I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

David Bowie

#7. You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

Dorothy Dix

#8. The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.

Patrick O'Brian

#10. My husband's name is Christopher Morgan, and we met in Atlanta. My two children are Sebastian and Quincy.

Kim Fields

#11. I worry about you," he finally said to Free. "I'm afraid that you're going to break your heart, going up against the world."
"No." The wind caught her hair and sent it swirling behind her. "I'm going to break the world.

Courtney Milan

#12. Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?

Barry Cryer

#13. It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Eric Hoffer

#14. Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.

Jean Nidetch

#15. The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Theodore Roosevelt

#16. Who are you?" I asked.
"You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours."

~Clea / Sage, pg. 105

Hilary Duff

#17. I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

Ne-Yo

#18. I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.

Peter Landesman

#19. Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality.

Kitaro Nishida