Top 30 Red Barber Quotes
#1. Then quote Hall-of-Fame announcer Red Barber: "Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Zack Hample
#2. I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.
John C. McGinley
#3. This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.
Red Barber
#4. The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were.
Pete Wentz
#5. When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
Red Barber
#6. Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a tremendous amount on competing agendas. Not everybody grease in the White House.
Dee Dee Myers
#7. Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.
Red Barber
#8. For now he was in one of those crises when the soul yields a blurred glimpse of all that it enfolds, like an ocean, tempest-torn, uncovering everything from the seaweed in the shallows to the sands of the abyss.
Gustave Flaubert
#9. Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#10. In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was often performed by barbers, which is why the traditional barber's pole - like the bloody towels that once hung outside barber shops - is colored red and white.
Cary McNeal
#12. You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
Red Barber
#14. And besides, the thing about committing yourself to a lie is that mostly you end up in twice the trouble, 'cause truth is like a whirlwind and you can't keep it in a box.
Sarah Monette
#15. Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Red Barber
#16. Baseball is only dull to dull minds
Red Barber
#17. It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.
Red Barber
#18. Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.
Alex Webb
#19. Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.
Red Barber
#20. Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.
Red Barber
#21. Papier-mache canals flowed in downtown Lowell, men smoking cigars stand by the rail spitting in the waters that reflect the drizzle hopelessness of 1926.
Jack Kerouac
#22. I've come off heroin twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The physical withdrawal doesn't last that long, but then it's just all psychological. I think it's worse than cigarettes.
Russell Brand
#23. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
Carl Bernstein
#24. Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
Roger Ebert
#25. When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
Red Barber
#27. The trouble with Texas Baptists is that we do not hold them under water long enough.
William Cowper Brann
#28. On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.
Red Barber
#29. We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
Seneca The Younger
#30. Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
Walt Whitman
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