Dave Barry Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
-
We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
-
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
-
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
-
You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
-
One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
-
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
-
Dolphins football has been a lifetime passion for me.
-
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
-
Not enough people in this world are happy.
-
The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
-
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
-
How else but through a broken heartMay Lord Christ enter in?
-
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.
-
To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author.
-
the competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.
-
You can't give up on your dreams.
-
The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.
-
No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.
-
I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period.
-
I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie.
-
Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.
-
Golf is fun - until you hit somebody in the head.
-
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
