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

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. – Dave Barry

Category:
Computers
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Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter. – Dave Barry

Category:
Cows
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I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. – Dave Barry

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War
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Other Quotes from
Violence
category

Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemys dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski

Category:
Violence

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. – Marshall Rosenberg

Category:
Violence

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

Category:
Violence

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. – Gandhi

Category:
Violence

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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity. – Thomas A. Edison

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Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. – Graham Greene

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My fitness trainers English, my physios English, some of my friends are English. I dont have a problem with English people at all. – Andy Murray

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I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, its a great frequency and its great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it. – Kip Winger

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