Top 100 Barry Quotes
#2. And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask.
But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.
Barry Lyga
#3. Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
Barry Ritholtz
#4. The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.
Barry Hannah
#5. I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else.
Dave Barry
#6. Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.
Barry Unsworth
#7. Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.
Barry Hughart
#8. I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
Barry Goldwater
#9. You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.
Dave Barry
#10. Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
Barry Sanders
#13. I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.
Barry Bonds
#14. I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
Robert Barry
#15. I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.
Todd Barry
#16. Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
Barry Ritholtz
#17. I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
Barry Humphries
#18. Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.
Dave Barry
#19. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.
Max Barry
#20. Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
Barry Gibb
#21. It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.
Max Barry
#22. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
Barry Bonds
#23. I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.
Robert Barry
#24. The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Barry McCaffrey
#25. No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
Lynda Barry
#26. Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
Barry Humphries
#27. Technology is constantly improving our lives. Look at the cellular telephone. Just ten years ago, virtually nobody was able to get into a car crash caused by trying to steer and dial at the same time; today, people do this all the time.
Dave Barry
#28. Simply by eliminating description, the screenwriter can work his way through the entire plot in a single morning, leaving the afternoon free for screenwriter leisure activities such as drugs.
Dave Barry
#29. If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.
Ric O'Barry
#30. People are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses.
Dave Barry
#32. The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.
Lynda Barry
#33. It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match
Barry Davies
#34. I followed Barry closely as we walked through the main doors of the hospital, down the corridor that smelt like disinfectant and false hope.
Belinda Jeffrey
#35. The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.
Barry Diller
#36. What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
Marion Barry
#37. By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.
Dave Barry
#38. I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
Barry Gibb
#39. Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
Barry Marshall
#40. I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.
Robert Barry
#41. Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
Barry Ritholtz
#42. The real comfort is that the history of the world contains so much grief that my small griefs are edged out, and are only cinders at the borders of the fire. I am saying this again because I want it to be true.
Sebastian Barry
#43. My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.
Max Barry
#44. I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.
David Cross
#45. ... once you start demonizing groups of people, when you make them the other, you can justify doing just about anything you want to the, can't you? Look at history if you don't believe me.
Brunonia Barry
#46. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
Dave Barry
#47. I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
Barry Diller
#48. It was funny how as soon as you knew there was something better, what you had seemed unbearable.
Max Barry
#49. I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't involve any actual work ... I felt it would be fun to have a job like that where you could make stuff up and be irresponsible and get paid for it.
Dave Barry
#50. The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
Barry Commoner
#51. Marijuana is a very dangerous drug. Some people smoke it just once and go directly into politics.
Barry Crimmins
#53. Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of the road; Italy, where they drive on the sidewalk; and France, where if necessary they will follow you right into the hotel lobby.
Dave Barry
#54. I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to ... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.
Frank Robinson
#55. Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.
Dave Parker
#56. Because," Leonard said, "light overcomes darkness. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe you can be defeated.
Dave Barry
#57. This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.
Dave Barry
#58. I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
Barry Sternlicht
#59. I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.
Barry Eisler
#60. Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!
Barry Pain
#61. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
Dave Barry
#62. John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish
Gareth Barry
#63. I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
Robert Barry
#64. SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.
Dave Barry
#65. European toilet paper is made from the same material that Americans use for roofing, which is why Europeans tend to remain standing throughout soccer matches.
Dave Barry
#66. Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us.
Denise Fields
#67. I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.
Barry Manilow
#68. I guess nobody assumes anybody is a libertarian. It's a more complex political discussion than most people are used to, to explain why you think the way you do about public education or drug laws, and why it's not as simple as being for or against something.
Dave Barry
#69. You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
Barry Mann
#71. This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.
Barry Lyga
#72. There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television? Why are you going to go back to television?" It's an interesting place.
Barry Levinson
#73. 33 percent agreeing with the statement that the world is controlled by a giant invisible telepathic clam named Ronaldo.
Dave Barry
#74. When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
Barry Eisler
#75. These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#76. Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.
Dave Barry
#77. Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
Barry Ritholtz
#78. In one case, a group of innocent American tourists was taken on a tour bus through a country the members later described as "either France or Sweden" and subjected to three days of looking at old, dirty buildings in cities where it was not possible to get a cheeseburger.
Dave Barry
#79. [American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect.
Dave Barry
#80. Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."
Dave Barry
#81. It was hard to listen to Goldwater and realize that a man could be half Jewish and yet sometimes appear twice as dense as the normal Gentile.
I. F. Stone
#82. I've never been struck by lightning as far as I know, so the Higher Power is treating me as well as even those people who love him very much.
Dave Barry
#83. Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.
Mara Liasson
#84. Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.
Barry McGee
#85. The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.
Barry Richards
#86. I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of the year while a .227-hitting, rapidly fossilizing Rickey Henderson staggered like a delirious marathoner toward 3,000 hits.
Stephen Rodrick
#87. Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements ...
Dave Barry
#88. My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Barry Manilow
#89. Back then, the entire Internet consisted of two slow, boxcar-sized UNIVAC computers about 50 feet apart, connected by a wire. It would take one of these computers an entire day to send an email to the other one, which would immediately delete it, because it was a Viagra ad.
Dave Barry
#90. Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Barry White
#91. I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.
Dave Barry
#92. I would give the cameras to the kids in the swimming pools and they would play with them, and then I would collect them and we would upload it. If you're in the process, you're there.
Barry Levinson
#93. At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
Lynda Barry
#94. My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
Barry Humphries
#95. I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
Barry White
#96. We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on,
Barry Alvarez
#97. I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real.
Barry Watson
#98. Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash.
Dave Barry
#99. Don't wait for your employees to seek you out. Choose to be assertive and go to them first.
Barry Banther
#100. Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.
Barry McGuire
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