Dave Barry Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

  Dave Barry

  Silly, Book, Cute Life

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

  Dave Barry

  Drinking, Book, Eye

  "The Taming of the Screw". Book by Dave Barry, 1983.

• Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Drinking, Book

  "Vegetable Magnetism" by Dave Barry, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 1991.

• Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

  Dave Barry

  Respect, Funny Inspirational, Party

  "Is Findlay’s water safe?". "The Courier" Interview, thecourier.com. February 15, 2016.

• I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Lasts, Detectives

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• Reading... a vacation for the mind.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Reading, Vacation

• You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

  Dave Barry

  Cute, Birthday, Teenage

• I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.9, Ballantine Books

• I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

• My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is evidenced by the fact that you're reading a very sloppy and poorly researched book.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Baby, Couple

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.2, Rodale

• All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions in this book, these people are not responsible. In the end, there is only one person responsible for what I write, and that person, of course, is: Donald Trump.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.10, Ballantine Books

• 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 Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Taken

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.11, Ballantine Books

• There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.7, Ballantine Books

• The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older. (It's insights like this that separate the professional book author from the person with a real job.)

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, Real

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.171, Ballantine Books

• This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dream, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.5, Ballantine Books

• I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the Frontiers of Human Understanding and also we want to sell as many books as possible to adolescent boys.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

• Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Humorous, Night

• The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Lakes, Sea

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up”, p.135, Ballantine Books

• But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth- of the books I'd probably love if I ever got to them.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Reading, Feelings

• I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it a fascinating book. Keith's a pretty honest fellow.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Keith, Honest

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and some interviews with ex-band members. Like [Keith] Richards's book "Life," it's brutally honest.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Sleep, Wife

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I actually kind of like Janet Reno. She seems like a nice enough lady. But when you're basically going through the entire phone book trying to find women lawyers who don't have maids to pick the attorney general of the United States, how well can you do?

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Book, Phones

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

• I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my all-time favorite book about the war is the novel, "The Killer Angels'' by Michael Shaara.

  Dave Barry

  War, Team, Book

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being a newspaper guy because you're always writing columns and you can't reflect on the ones you've already done.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with McClain J., www.teenink.com.

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