Dave Barry Quotes

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

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• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Help
  • City
  • Taxes

• By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Important
  • Problems

• When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Working

• The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Way
  • Swing
  • Bat

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Help

• I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Why
  • You
  • Own

• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Great
  • Pride

• I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Presentation

• I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Voice

• You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Driving
  • Edge

• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Nature
  • You
  • Butterfly

• I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • City
  • Best

• Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Laws

• Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

  

  Francois Fenelon
  • Good
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Dad

• You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.

  

  Lynsey Addario

• In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

  

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