Dave Barry Quotes

I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

As an actor, you have a ton of downtime, so it's always good to have a hobby, especially another creative outlet outside of acting.

I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed, and as a person, I have to adapt to those changes.

I realize that I'm pretty flawed, but you know - I haven't killed anybody yet.

Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!

Habit is overcome by habit.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing." And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I'm really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.

I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.

Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

You can't grow and gain confidence from wearing the same thing every day.

It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.

Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important.

I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.