John Barry Quotes

#1. I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

Jane Birkin

#2. John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

Carter Burwell

#3. John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Carter Burwell

#4. It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Eric Hoffer

#5. There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Seth Godin

#6. I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

Billy Boyd

#7. Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

John Barry

#8. I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas - for generics, for Christ's sake.

Max Barry

#9. I wouldn't know Robbie Williams if I fell over him.

John Barry

#10. First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me Animate

Gayle Forman

#11. Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.

Theodore Sturgeon

#12. Reagan is described as delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.

H.W. Brands

#13. We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for the hope of wisdom which our kind of culture must acquire for its survival.

Lewis Thomas

#14. Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

Barry White

#15. None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.

Dan Harmon

#16. It was easy to believe that everything was just as the children left it, as if time had stopped the night the died.

Ransom Riggs

#17. In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists...The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.

John M Barry

#18. I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

John Barry

#19. I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

John Podesta

#20. Because you're you and I'm me, that's why." "Well, there's an argument I can't refute." I can just see his luscious smile.

Magda Alexander

#21. They that stand high have many blasts to shake 275 them, 276 And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.

William Shakespeare

#22. There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.

John Barry

#23. when a clear inner purpose becomes your primary goal, all your other goals have a way of working out.

Don Joseph Goewey

#24. I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Barry Goldwater

#25. John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish

Gareth Barry

#26. Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.

John Barry

#27. My dream is to be able to make something in Baltimore that's just there. Make a movie or make a show there. I only left because there wasn't any opportunity except being an extra in Barry Levinson or John Waters movies.

Derek Waters

#28. Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.

Kate Braverman

#29. Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

Max Barry

#30. Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

John Barry

#31. Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

Bill Vaughan

#32. Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

John Dean

#33. The Scars come before the Stars.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#34. I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.

Barry McGuire

#35. Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A John Grisham Novel.

Dave Barry

#36. I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

John Stamos

#37. The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.

Prosper Of Aquitaine

#38. If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

John Barry

#39. The idea of making the industry live up to its legal responsibility is not going to die.

John M Barry

#40. I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

Brian Pinkerton

#41. I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

Barry Manilow

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

Barry Cryer

#43. Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

John Thorn

#44. Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.

John M Barry