Dave Barry Quotes

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

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• The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Man
  • Marry

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • You
  • Looking

• Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Management
  • Chicago

• Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hate

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • High
  • Daily
  • Paper

• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • People
  • Love
  • Give

• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Black
  • Best
  • Black-and-white

• Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • America
  • Food
  • Creative

• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Model

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • World
  • Different
  • Money

• Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Up
  • Everyone
  • Going

• Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Doing

• I love working in New York.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Love
  • Working
  • New York

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Always
  • Innovation
  • Being

• What makes an officer's job all the more difficult, dangerous, and demanding is that it rests on upholding that sacred trust with citizens that he or she serves. Nevertheless, I ask every officer in Chicago: reflect on your work, your training, your experience and - to be honest - about the fears and frustrations you bring to that job.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • She
  • Job

• On n'exporte pas la démocratie dans un fourgon blindé.

  

  Jacques Chirac

• 'Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story. '

  

  Dan Rather
  • Good
  • Today
  • Training

• In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • People

• You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

  

  Andrew McMahon
  • Struggle
  • To Be
  • Illusory

• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Trust