Dave Barry Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.

  Dave Barry

  Football, Past, Player

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

  Dave Barry

  Basketball, Past, Eight

• 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 most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.

  Dave Barry

  Kings, Past, Years

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.54, Ballantine Books

• My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.

  Dave Barry

  Past, Bills, Able

  "Lost in cyberspace" by Dave Barry, www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 1994.

• Now, once again, we find ourselves facing rising gas prices, and the question is: This time, are we going to learn from the past? Are we finally going to get serious about energy conservation? Of course not! We have the brains of mealworms! So we need to get more oil somehow. As far as I can figure, there's only one practical way to do this. That's right: We need to clone more dinosaurs. We have the technology, as was shown in two blockbuster scientific movies, Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park Returns with Exactly the Same Plot. Once we have the dinosaurs, all we need is an asteroid.

  Dave Barry

  Past, Technology, Two

• I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, Past, Remembrance

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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