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Turns Quotes by Dave Barry
- Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt…
- There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They…
- It is important to be nice. But sometimes niceness can be misconstrued as weak. Should we be nice to everybody? Should we be nice only…
- The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even…
- People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn out…
- In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English…
- If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some…
- 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…
More Turns Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a… — Douglas Adams
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez