It's more than getting up and lecturing people.
DAN BYRNE People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'
ROBERT BYRNE Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you...
DAVID BYRNE That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
DAVID BYRNE I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identi...
GABRIEL BYRNE I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me,...
GABRIEL BYRNE I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in tha...
GABRIEL BYRNE It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alon...
GABRIEL BYRNE Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali...
GABRIEL BYRNE Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to fi...
GABRIEL BYRNE What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I ...
GABRIEL BYRNE I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
GABRIEL BYRNE And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely d...
GABRIEL BYRNE Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen...
GABRIEL BYRNE The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter&#...
GABRIEL BYRNE Corporations are the new dictators.
GABRIEL BYRNE We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or ge...
GABRIEL BYRNE I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
GABRIEL BYRNE I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too...
GABRIEL BYRNE A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I&...
GABRIEL BYRNE Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from ...
GABRIEL BYRNE It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is...
GABRIEL BYRNE I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second ...
GABRIEL BYRNE Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressi...
GABRIEL BYRNE The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit...
DAVID BYRNE Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really...
DAVID BYRNE Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".
ROBERT BYRNE It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Br...
DAVID BYRNE Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being ...
RHONDA BYRNE I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
DAVID BYRNE Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and stil...
DAVID BYRNE As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It...
DAVID BYRNE A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his lif...
ROBERT BYRNE The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
ROBERT BYRNE Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
ROBERT BYRNE Respect is love in plain clothes.
FRANKIE BYRNE There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
ROBERT BYRNE To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
DAVID BYRNE Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or...
ROBERT BYRNE I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which...
GABRIEL BYRNE Confidence is always overconfidence.
ROBERT BYRNE To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
DAVID BYRNE There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting.
KEVIN BYRNE Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
ROBERT BYRNE Getting caught is the mother of invention.
ROBERT BYRNE Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
ROBERT BYRNE I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to ...
DAVID BYRNE People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a l...
DAVID BYRNE It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
DAVID BYRNE The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushe...
DAVID BYRNE Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don'...
DAVID BYRNE Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
JANE BYRNE I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionate...
DAVID BYRNE I welcome the liberation of music from the prison of melody, rigid structure, and harmony. Why not? ...
DAVID BYRNE I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came f...
ROSE BYRNE We had similar situations with the Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears and they responded quickly with o...
BILL BYRNE If you look at what we've got represented now on both the men's and women's side, we have some of th...
BILL BYRNE Coach Blair's team showed marked improvement last year and judging by the way his team is practicing...
BILL BYRNE Coach Blair's team showed marked improvement last year and judging by the way his team is practicing...
BILL BYRNE The priorities are keeping people out of dangerous situations and being able to help others who may ...
BILL BYRNE We have spent last couple of days reviewing many options about playing this football game. Our first...
BILL BYRNE We wanted to do what we could to help. We'll treat your athletes just like they were our own.
BILL BYRNE This is a program that can be successful in absolutely everything that we do. There are two flagship...
BILL BYRNE My goal is to make Texas A&M a destination. Billy is the perfect fit here. He's from Texas, his fami...
BILL BYRNE [Texas A&M was the highest-profile program that fell short in both football (887) and men's basketba...
BILL BYRNE I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.
DAVID BYRNE I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
JANE BYRNE I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you...
DAVID BYRNE I don't like begging money from producers.
DAVID BYRNE I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
DAVID BYRNE I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. m...
BRADLEY BYRNE I firmly believe a rising tide lifts all boats. I think having Airbus only grows and brings more att...
BRADLEY BYRNE I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bi...
DAVID BYRNE I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartment...
DAVID BYRNE I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of of...
DAVID BYRNE Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
ROBERT BYRNE I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating cer...
DAVID BYRNE PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, ...
DAVID BYRNE Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a...
ROSE BYRNE Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little c...
DAVID BYRNE Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, o...
DAVID BYRNE With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has e...
DAVID BYRNE Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it...
DAVID BYRNE There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is bad...
BRADLEY BYRNE Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
ROBERT BYRNE Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
ROBERT BYRNE Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.)
ROBERT BYRNE Love will find a lay.
ROBERT BYRNE Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
ROBERT BYRNE Partying is such sweet sorrow.
ROBERT BYRNE In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
ROBERT BYRNE Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
ROBERT BYRNE Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
ROBERT BYRNE Toymakers are bringing back proven hits because it's less risky than betting on something new.
CHRIS BYRNE O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deepl...
GABRIEL BYRNE Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situati...
DAVID BYRNE The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is...
DAVID BYRNE When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to y...
GABRIEL BYRNE Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
ROBERT BYRNE There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's...
ROSE BYRNE I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a...
GABRIEL BYRNE We know very little about him and out of courtesy we have accepted his invitation to meet with us.
OLLIE BYRNE Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
ROBERT BYRNE Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.
JOHN BYRNE Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
DAVID BYRNE I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Sere...
GABRIEL BYRNE The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activit...
DAVID BYRNE We'll have a great variety of items in the exhibit, including large coverlets, afghans, woven garmen...
JOAN BYRNE This sends a very clear message that we are committed to being in Santa Rosa.
PAT BYRNE Your thoughts become things!

RHONDA BYRNE Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.
RHONDA BYRNE There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that trut...
RHONDA BYRNE Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of get...
DAVID BYRNE All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
DAVID BYRNE The low-end guys work in packs. Some are unqualified and unscrupulous.
ALEC BYRNE In the old days, paparazzi would never be seen. The first time the target would know he was shot [ph...
ALEC BYRNE It's definitely a way to reclaim some market share, but how do you get a kid to want it? Kids are mo...
CHRIS BYRNE He's made some huge lifestyle changes. I think that difficult period allowed him to figure out what ...
MICHELLE BYRNE If possible (surgery) should be within the golden hour, ... But you can still produce good results w...
PETER BYRNE Would I have been better off as a teacher in Ireland or Spain? It's a very difficult question to ans...
GABRIEL BYRNE The consumers' trust has been eroded and the EU must restore public confidence in its food science a...
DAVID BYRNE There may be some amendments here or there, but as long as the proposal that has been announced rema...
DAVID BYRNE This is a major breakthrough that will provide consumers with much needed protection and rights,
DAVID BYRNE Consumers now clearly want copper-fastened guarantees that these controls are being implemented,
DAVID BYRNE Parents are looking for options that allow kids to incorporate physical activity into their play -- ...
CHRIS BYRNE The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distan...
JANE BYRNE I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
DAVID BYRNE I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
DAVID BYRNE I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public plac...
GABRIEL BYRNE Our evidence shows (Corrine Smith) was not strapped in, ... There was a car seat in the car, but she...
TOM BYRNE Things come and go, but the Ant Farm is very much like Barbie or G.I. Joe or Hot Wheels that have ma...
CHRIS BYRNE KB hasn't articulated a strategy about what they're doing yet, but need to stock a lot of the hot to...
CHRIS BYRNE It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. A...
GABRIEL BYRNE I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It...
DAVID BYRNE Anyone who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography
ROBERT BYRNE Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
ROBERT BYRNE Stop crime at its source! Support Planned Parenthood.
ROBERT BYRNE There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on
ROBERT BYRNE No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write o...
ROBERT BYRNE Prejudices save time.
ROBERT BYRNE Properties that are undervalued get pushed up to value or above because there will be more than one ...
ROBERT BYRNE On one level, the Hollywood-like romance is tongue-in-cheek. But on the other level, it means seriou...
CHRIS BYRNE I have no nostalgia for the location whatsoever. I appreciate what Hilly did. It's about his policy....
DAVID BYRNE Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisf...
DAVID BYRNE It is the price which must be paid to restore public confidence in our commitment to protect public ...
DAVID BYRNE I expect that we will achieve consensus on Monday,
DAVID BYRNE very foolish to underestimate the potential for the disease to spread.
DAVID BYRNE [It's] a model that the nurse-midwife provides total care to her patient and yet has backup in an em...
JOHN BYRNE No one likes it when I go away, and generally we have all gone together, but now that the children h...
JOHN BYRNE Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk oper...
JOHN BYRNE [John Byrne, IM's CEO, stated,] Most corporate actions software contains only very limited tax funct...
JOHN BYRNE I feel it's important to mark my cross as soon as possible.
JOHN BYRNE I think the time for dawdling has disappeared, ... If there's anything we've learned, it's that each...
JOHN BYRNE Moms will probably draw a line on these dolls but they're a good 'allowance' toy for kids on a weekl...
CHRIS BYRNE I would like to break out of this 'dark, brooding' image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
GABRIEL BYRNE I think Barbie is in another transitional period.
CHRIS BYRNE Language as a Prison

The Philippines did have a written language before the Spanis...
DAVID BYRNE Linked together as a team with one goal, we soon realized we were only as strong as our weakest link...
JAKE BYRNE I'm seeing a lot of electronics. I think a good portion of them are stupid.
CHRIS BYRNE If it's a way of expanding toys into a year-long business, then electronics and furnishings make sen...
CHRIS BYRNE How responsible are you with what you are given? Are you the per- son who, when asked to do a job, c...
JAKE BYRNE Plowing through life, you’re bound to run into obstructions. Some of life’s trials result from m...
JAKE BYRNE When the football is handed to the ball carrier, everyone counts on that guy gaining a down or getti...
JAKE BYRNE After graduating early from high school, I carefully listened to the quarterback during my first pla...
JAKE BYRNE When we’re recovering from a spiritual fumble, we must realize everyone does stupid stuff. No one ...
JAKE BYRNE It was surprising, in a good way.
CHRISTOPHER BYRNE That's one of the things that technology has done,
CHRISTOPHER BYRNE It's a social game for them (kids).
CHRISTOPHER BYRNE The advances that have been made in technology have really allowed the toys to do more for less mone...
CHRISTOPHER BYRNE a very competitive season for parents' dollars.
CHRISTOPHER BYRNE For this caucus to allow a rural infrastructure program to be announced in St. John's is, quite fran...
GERRY BYRNE I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.
DAVID BYRNE Jim Copeland is one of the best athletic directors who's served college athletics. He took on a diff...
BILL BYRNE To err is human, To purr feline.
ROBERT BYRNE It's a very democratic instrument, everyone is reduced to the same amateur level.
DAVID BYRNE It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber (1894–1961)
ROBERT BYRNE To err is human, to purr is feline.
ROBERT BYRNE The plastic created very thick smoke, ... There was a tremendous amount of smoke.
PETER BYRNE It's certainly getting grown-ups like you talking about Barbie, and the metaphor that they are using...
CHRIS BYRNE