« All Words Quotes · Dave Barry's Page
Words Quotes by Dave Barry
- Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can…
- First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin…
- I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.
- Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is…
- There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.
- 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…
- All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the…
- The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.
- 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…
- All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the…
- Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to take quite so…
- A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just…
More Words Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila