David Foster Wallace Quotes

This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

David Foster Wallace

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• You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Real
  • May
  • Me

• Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Deep

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Society
  • Never
  • Crime

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Sleep
  • I Can
  • Luxury

• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Man
  • Gay

• Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Basic
  • Supplied

• When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Great
  • Country
  • Kids

• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Career
  • Flower

• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Art
  • Purpose

• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Trying
  • Environment

• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • God
  • Day

• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Theatre
  • Very
  • Formal

• For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Why
  • American

• I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Creation
  • Research
  • Farming

• I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Dance

• I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • Work

• In old times, men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith; in later times, they used the objects of faith that they might show their powers of painting.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Painting

• I wouldn't say Hollywood is anti-Republican, I certainly haven't experienced that.

  

  Angie Harmon

• I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the color gets corrupted. I don't necessarily like the experience of having heavy glasses in front of me.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Experience
  • Color

• The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.

  

  Babatunde Olatunji
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • Alone