Dave Barry Quotes

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

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• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Brain
  • Start
  • You Can Do It

• You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Day

• The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • History
  • Proud

• I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Tired

• Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Spirit
  • Revolution
  • Process

• Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

  

  Ed Townsend
  • Trust
  • Always
  • Obedience

• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Test
  • Member
  • Became

• I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Help
  • Mother
  • Me

• It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • God
  • Moving
  • Sad

• Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Character
  • You

• When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

  

  Ted Rall
  • You
  • Information
  • News

• Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Life
  • Development
  • Marine

• You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do...

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Real
  • Power
  • Truth

• Did not Troyon tell me to enter the studio of Couture in Paris? It is needless to tell you how decided was my refusal to do so. I admit even that it cooled me, temporarily at least, in my esteem and admiration of Troyon.. ..and I after all, connected myself only with artists who were seeking.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Paris

• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

  

  Len Wein
  • True
  • Friend

• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  

  Coco Chanel

• Is 'Cowboy Casanova' about the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys? No. I would never immortalize a guy that did me wrong. I would never give him that much credit.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Guy
  • Cowboy

• The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.

  

  Alice Walker
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet

• It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • World
  • Help
  • United States

• Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Passion
  • Leader
  • Singer

• I like suits. I mean, I always feel good in a suit; I'm more of a suit guy than a shirt-and-jeans-type guy, probably. You know, like, I love Brad Goresky's style. And sometimes he'll wear a pair of, like, leopard pants, and I'm like, I couldn't pull that off, but I appreciate it from afar.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Style

• Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Live
  • Children
  • School

• Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

  

  Dave Barry