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Been Quotes by Dave Barry
- For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
- I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
- Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last…
- I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
- Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by…
- Many, many of you have written to me asking the following question: 'Dave, have their been any new advancements in the field of artificial falcon…
- I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a…
- A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to. There…
- As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.
- The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've been…
- We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is…
- One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a…
- Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years…
- ... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them.…
- Wood heat is not new. It dates back to a day millions of years ago, when a group of cavemen were sitting around, watching dinosaurs…
- The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form…
- Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
- There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that…
- You might have mentioned this to me Molly,†said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.†“I forgot,†said Molly. “You…
- Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle