Quote by Dave Barry
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unle

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. – Dave Barry

Other quotes by Dave Barry

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. – Dave Barry

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funny
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The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished and put inside boxes. – Dave Barry

Category:
Housework
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. – Dave Barry

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Age
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Other Quotes from
Violence
category

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. – John Frederick Boyes

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Violence

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow

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Violence

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. – Sam Peckinpah

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Violence

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? – Alan Paton

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Violence

Random Quotes

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that weve done that before. – Matt Groening

Category:
History

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didnt have the rights to the movie. I couldnt duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement. – Jan de Bont

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legal

Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

Category:
Books

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies. – Meir Kahane

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alone