Lynda Barry Quotes

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

Lynda Barry

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• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Going
  • Big
  • Most

• It's a very good historical book about history.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Book
  • History

• People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Ingenuity
  • Castro

• When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Help
  • House
  • Water

• I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Good
  • Money

• I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Movies

• Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Child
  • Find

• Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reputation
  • Potential

• When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Fear
  • Model

• I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Financial
  • Reform
  • Favor

• James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Good
  • Important
  • Wrong

• Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Day
  • Dark
  • Everyday

• I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Life
  • Long
  • School

• If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • People
  • Effort

• Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Question
  • Wall

• If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Society
  • Victim
  • Diseases

• I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.

  

  Eric Bana
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.

  

  William Morris
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Flower

• Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

  

  Lynda Barry