Dave Barry Quotes

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

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• I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Different
  • Me

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Turning
  • Hammer

• Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Art
  • Violence

• I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Day

• The future ain't what it used to be.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Future
  • Used

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Live
  • You
  • Crying

• Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • True
  • Girl
  • Friendship

• I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.

  

  Alexi Zentner
  • People
  • Bad
  • Literature

• If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Purpose
  • Transformation
  • Identification

• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Optimistic

• I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Life