Dave Eggers Quotes

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

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• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Fire
  • Did

• Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Confused

• Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Art
  • Myself

• I've always been fond of acoustic music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Fond

• I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Him

• If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Music
  • Want
  • Security

• Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • True
  • Mother

• When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Life
  • Live
  • End

• The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Talk
  • Street
  • Hometown

• I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Art
  • Beach
  • Walk

• Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Think

• Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Feel

• I was brought up by my mum and my sister. I've always been around independent women; I like that. Anybody who's a fake I don't like and I don't talk to.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Independent

• The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Long
  • Wish

• Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Time
  • Business

• ὅπου γὰρ ἰσχὺς συζυγοῦσι καὶ δίκηποία ξυνωρὶς τῆσδε καρτερωτέρα

  

  Aeschylus

• Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • School
  • Nice
  • Smile

• There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life is
  • Enjoyed
  • Overcome

• There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Time
  • Progress
  • New

• I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Anxiety

• When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

  

  Dave Eggers