Dave Barry Quotes

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Life
  • History
  • Society

• Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Money
  • Travel
  • Son

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Study
  • Everything

• Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Compliment

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Son
  • Impact

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Self

• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Car
  • Thought

• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Explore

• You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Will
  • Anything

• Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Important
  • End
  • Story

• After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

  

  Hans Kung
  • World
  • War
  • History

• In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.

  

  Cavour
  • Politics
  • Absurd
  • Rancor

• When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Up
  • Night
  • Wonder

• Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one always regrets having set off too late; first for reasons of safety-the adage 'it is later than you think is very true in the mountains-but also because of the strange beauty of the moment: the day comes to replace the night, the peaks gradually lighten, it is the hour of mystery but also of hope. Setting off by lantern-light, witnessing the birth of a new day as one climbs to meet the sun, this is a wonderful experience

  

  Gaston Rebuffat
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Night

• On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Beer

• Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Night