David Rakoff Quotes

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

David Rakoff

Hope

Quotes to Explore

Nobody wants to give up good players.

Vince Lombardi
- Up
- Good
- Give
When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

Rakul Preet Singh
- Life
- Up
- Home
I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

Igor Luksic
- Support
- Grateful
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

Edmund White
- People
- American
- Die
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Time
- Work
- Book
There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

Sam Shepard
- Up
- Think
- Culture