Dave Barry

Dave Barry

37 quotes

Dave Barry, an American author and columnist born in 1947, is someone whose words carry as much weight as their professional legacy. The range of their thinking — from Religion to Car — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 47 quotes from Dave Barry, each offering a different angle on Religion, Car, Teen, Technology, and Sports. A line that stays with you: "The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates."

“To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.”

— Dave Barry

Teen

All Quotes by Dave Barry

“It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.”

— Dave Barry

Funny

“Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.”

— Dave Barry

Food

“As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.”

— Dave Barry

Fear

“The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.”

— Dave Barry

Communication

“Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.”

— Dave Barry

Relationship

“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.”

— Dave Barry

Time

“Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.”

— Dave Barry

Car

“We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.”

— Dave Barry

Patriotism

“The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.”

— Dave Barry

Cool

“The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.”

— Dave Barry

Death

“To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.”

— Dave Barry

Teen

“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”

— Dave Barry

Car

“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.”

— Dave Barry

Art

“I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.”

— Dave Barry

Computers

“Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.”

— Dave Barry

Life

“The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.”

— Dave Barry

Religion

“Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.”

— Dave Barry

Business

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

— Dave Barry

Death

“The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.”

— Dave Barry

Age

“Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.”

— Dave Barry

Teen