Rifqa Barry Quotes

I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct. ~ Barry Sonnenfeld

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer. ~ Dave Barry

It was pointless to ponder who I was because I was whichever combination of chemicals happened to be sloshing around at that time. So I decided not to search for a true self. I decided to choose who I wanted to be. ~ Max Barry

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. ~ Barry McGee

Dr Johnson died in 1944. The suspicion exists that he was silenced ... However two federal inspectors did examine his hospital record in the late 1950's. They concluded it was likely that he was poisoned. ~ Barry Lynes

He turns to the Council. 'Sounds like Foolish behavior to me, boys. I hereby nominate the human race for membership in the Council of Fools!' He raises both arms and shouts to the sky. 'Humanity! Join us! Join your masters! All opposed, say nay!
And then nothing but silence and Flip's panting as he strains, listening.
'There are no dissenting votes!' he cries. 'I hereby admit humanity to the Council of Fools!' He punches the air in triumph. 'Dude,' he says, grinning, 'I just upped our membership by six billion. Not bad, huh? ~ Barry Lyga

I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them. ~ Barry Humphries

The truth is that only a small percentage of Miami's population consists of violent criminals, and the bulk of those are elected officials. The rest of us Miamians are regular people, just like the people in your town: We work hard, try to raise our kids right, and are always ready to help out our neighbors by laying down covering fire when they go outside to get their newspapers. ~ Dave Barry

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you? ~ Barry Hannah

What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak ... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT. ~ Lynda Barry

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done. ~ Barry Diller

Normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets. ~ Dave Barry

There's so much to be afraid of. ~ Barry Lopez

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you ~ Barry Lopez

Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students, spoke to them after class, tried to help them out. I'd talk with them personally about their work and try to get out of them what they were thinking about, forcing them to thinking seriously and not just falling back on all the ideas that they had picked up someplace. And so I took my job teaching very seriously and that - as a result, it took up a lot of time. ~ Robert Barry

I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture and he takes a stand that's so firm and so confident and unyielding that it can't be ignored and I appreciate that. ~ Barry Ptolemy

In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible. ~ Barry Webster

The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making Bill Gates even richer than he already was. ~ Dave Barry

Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water. ~ Dave Barry

Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for. ~ Barry Neil Kaufman

The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond silt for brains, you want the long form. ~ Dave Barry

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. ~ Barry Eichengreen

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. ~ Barry M. Goldwater

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you ... they're a little away from you. ~ Barry Hannah

I thought of how Midori had once articulated the idea of mono no aware, a sensibility that, though frequently obscured during cherry blossom viewing by the cacophony of drunken doggerel and generator-powered television sets, remains steadfast in one of the two cultures from which I come. She had called it "the sadness of being human." A wise, accepting sadness, she had said. I admired her for the depths of character such a description indicated. For me, sad has always been a synonym for bitter, and I suspect this will always be so. ~ Barry Eisler

And what is the Scientific Community doing about these problems, young people? THEY'RE CLONING SHEEP. Great! Just what we need! Sheep that look MORE ALIKE than they already do! Thanks a lot, Scientific Community! ~ Dave Barry

She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves. ~ Barry Lyga

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words. ~ Dave Barry

Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that. ~ Barry Harris

I thought of an old poker players' expression: If you look around the table and can't spot the sucker, the sucker is you. ~ Barry Eisler

Like that.
It's all right.
It's not all right.
It's right. ~ Barry Lyga

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top. ~ Dave Barry

Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring. ~ Dave Barry

Boy is this journey ever long. Also arduous. ~ Dave Barry

Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall. ~ Barry Lopez

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music. ~ Barry Gibb