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Years Quotes by Dave Barry
- 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 recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover…
- I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
- My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over…
- Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed…
- 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…
- SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single…
- Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million…
- It was not easy victory in the America Cup. Our boys spent years experimenting with different designs for their boat before they came up with…
- I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.
- A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of…
- This year, U.S. airlineswill carry a record 143 million passengers, who will be in the air for 382 million hours, during which they will be…
- Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to…
- The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.
- Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous…
- The Japanese eat, sleep, and breathe golf; the only thing they don't do is actually play it, because to get on a course, you have…
- Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I…
- 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…
- 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…
- Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good…
- 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…
- Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet…
- Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.
- A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though…
- Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing…
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz