Dave Barry Quotes

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.

Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

The American sense of decorum is falling apart.

If I'm in the airport, people will come up and just hug me because they feel like they can - and that's the greatest. They just want to hug because some place, some memory in their lives, I meant something to them.

If I meet pals, we do hug each other, and it's very nice, you know... it's something that's come on me late and became second nature, and it's first nature now!

I love touching. I always touch people.

German Jews don't show their emotions in public.

It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss.

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.

Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence.

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.

America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.