"You should never pick up a newspaper when……" — Dave Barry
"You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories."
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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 Bummer Quotes
This quote is filed under Bummer Quotes,
one of 35 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We’re not living in an age of no hope. We are living in the age of choice, which is much…
— Ezra Miller
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Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just…
— Terence Stamp
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Well, I'm half Italian, so last year on Warped Tour I got this really good tan and I was like,…
— Gerard Way
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My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer
— Kylie Bax
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"No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical…
— Guy Kawasaki
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Without running, I would have missed the joy of rain. What could be considered an inconvenience or a bummer to…
— Kristin Armstrong
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What a bummer it is to be a human being.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Women with whiskers... its a bummer.
— Phil Robertson
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I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s…
— Jason Mraz
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The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.
— Paulina Porizkova
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The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come…
— St. Vincent
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat…
— Patrick Carney
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