Dave Eggers Quotes
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
-
We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
-
When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
-
I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
-
In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
-
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
-
Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
-
Let the path be open to talent.
-
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
-
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
-
I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
-
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
-
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
-
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
-
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
-
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
-
Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
-
I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
-
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
-
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
-
A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.
-
Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.
-
Hey, this has been said before over the past century or so. But there's a survival instinct going on that is demonstrated on a small scale here.
-
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.
