Dave Eggers Quotes

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Fun

• Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

  

  Laura Bush
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Book
  • Free

• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Negative

• I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Family

• The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Love
  • Water
  • For Him

• Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Period
  • Teen
  • Intense

• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Black
  • Know

• As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Live
  • Way
  • Hate

• The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Truth
  • History
  • Satisfaction

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Government

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Silly

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• I think that when you're queer, you grow up with these kinds of men who might have made you feel small because of who you are. They could be part of your family, or somebody on the street, or a teacher.

  

  Ben Hopkins
  • Up
  • Men
  • Family

• I don't go out and pick fights.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park

• Though watching porn may seem degrading to some women, the fact is that it's one of the few jobs for women where you can get to a certain level, look around, and feel so powerful, not just in the work environment but as a sexual being. So, fuck Gloria Steinem.

  

  Jenna Jameson
  • Work
  • Women
  • May

• Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • Book

• It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Book
  • Cool
  • Fake