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Person Quotes by Dave Barry
- Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
- It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
- I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
- What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between…
- Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
- If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity,…
- I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them…
- All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions in this book,…
- Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want…
- Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home.
- Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night…
- Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.
- A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.
- I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and…
- Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain…
- The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older.…
- Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an island on the…
- As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that…
- A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
- In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic…
- My son, Rob....said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be…
- I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.
More Person Quotes
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe