Frases de Dave Barry (132 citas, página 2)

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“Aunque el golf antes estaba restringido a protestantes ricos y gordos, ahora está abierto a cualquiera con un atuendo horrible.”

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“Como humorista profesional, recibo a menudo cartas de lectores interesados en la naturaleza básica del humor. '¿Qué clase de persona enferma, perversa y repelente eres…?', suelen preguntar, '¿… que hace chistes sobre prender fuego a una cabra?”

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“Debo aclarar que llevaba una capa de terciopelo negro para parecerme al apuesto, romántico Zorro. Pero en realidad parecía un murciélago gigantesco con gafas.”

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“En la América de hoy… tenemos a Woody Allen, cuyo humor se ha vuelto tan sofisticado que sólo lo entiende Mia Farrow. Los que crean que Mia Farrow debería volver a hacer películas donde el demonio la deja preñada y Woody Allen debería volver a disfrazarse de espermatozoide, que levanten la mano. Gracias.”

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“Discuto muy bien. Preguntad a alguno de los amigos que me quedan. Puedo ganar una discusión sobre cualquier tema, contra cualquier oponente. La gente lo sabe, y me evita en las fiestas. A veces, como signo de gran respeto, ni siquiera me invitan.”

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“La pregunta más frecuente es: ¿Tienen orgasmos los seres unicelulares? La respuesta es sí, los tienen constantemente. Por eso no les importa vivir en charcas de barro caliente.”

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Dave Barry Frases y Citas

“La pregunta científica de hoy es: ¿Qué demonios es la electricidad? ¿Y a dónde va cuando sale de la tostadora?”

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“Los cuatro elementos del universo son fuego, agua, tierra y vinilo.”

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“Los tiburones son tan duros como esos fans del fútbol que se quitan las camisetas en pleno enero en Chicago. Pero son más inteligentes.”

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“Tengo un planteamiento infalible para un programa de televisión de gran éxito. Se llamaría 'Una Celebridad es Devorada Viva por un Tiburón'.”

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“Tras unos años aburridos, el Rock and Roll con conciencia social murió. Fue reemplazado por la música Disco, que sólo servía como guía a formas de vida no más complicadas que la familia de los líquenes.”

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Dave Barry: Frases en inglés

“I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.”

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“If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.”

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“Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!”

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“There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.”

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“The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.”

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“Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.”

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

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“If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER.”

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“Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.”

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“Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.”

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“normal person's weekly chore list:
1. clean kitchen.
2. clean bathroom.
3. clean entire rest of domicile.
cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list:
1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.”

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“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.”

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Dave Barry Turns 40 (1990)

“The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.”

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“Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.”

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“Black Stache had no love for the Queen, no love for women of any sort, except for his ma. He had a real soft spot for his ma, and was truly sorry for the time he’d marooned her.”

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Dave Barry libro Peter and the Starcatchers

Fuente: Peter and the Starcatchers

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

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"The Funny Side of 'Beowulf'", The Miami Herald, November 2, 1997.
Columns and articles

“If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.”

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Dave Barry libro Peter and the Starcatchers

Fuente: Peter and the Starcatchers

“All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required".”

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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.”

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The Taming of the Screw (1983)
Fuente: The Taming of the Screw: How to Sidestep Several Million Homeowner's Problems

“The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.”

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“Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.”

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Fuente: Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys

“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”

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“Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.”

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“In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.”

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Fuente: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.”

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Dave Barry libro Peter and the Starcatchers

Fuente: Peter and the Starcatchers

“He felt a momentary pang of regret that he had not spent more time with his beloved wife. But it passed when he remembered that the reason he’d gone to sea in the first place was that he had never really liked his beloved wife.”

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Dave Barry libro Peter and the Starcatchers

Fuente: Peter and the Starcatchers

“Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain.”

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Dave Barry libro Peter and the Starcatchers

Fuente: Peter and the Starcatchers

“… when the armed robber of unhappiness knocks over the Keebler cookie display of our complacency, and bangs the samurai sword of negativity on the checkout counter of our dreams, we must not be afraid to hurl the fruit cocktail can of hope.”

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“Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.”

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“He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things.”

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Dave Barry libro Peter and the Starcatchers

Fuente: Peter and the Starcatchers

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