"A short distance away is the Tidal Basin,……" — Dave Barry
"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 it were the Second Coming of Christ."
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508 Quotes by Dave Barry
Dave Barry has 508 quotes on this site.
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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
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The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management…
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'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look…
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers…
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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only…
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More Basin Quotes
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
— Paul Cezanne
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Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and…
— George Eliot
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Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people,…
— Justin Martyr
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest…
— Bill McKibben
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue…
— George Eliot
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But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline…
— Sallie Tisdale
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If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed,…
— Mark Lynas
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It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused…
— Unknown Author
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Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing…
— Peter Elbow
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