"Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless……" — Dave Barry
"Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons."
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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 Airless Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet…
— William Winwood Reade
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The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the…
— William Torrey Harris
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Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices,…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the…
— Matt Taibbi
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If…
— C.S. Lewis
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The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea…
— Immanuel Kant
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I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he…
— Sylvia Plath
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Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about…
— Virginia Woolf
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...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
— Tabitha Suzuma
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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it…
— C.S. Lewis
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Caress is a sad song blindness is a sad song nevertheless is a sad song loneliness is a sad song…
— Lorna Grace
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