In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators. – Joseph Barbera
Thats what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. – Joseph Barbera
I dont know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me. – Joseph Barbera
I hope we dont get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving. – Joseph Barbera
Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech