David Foster Wallace Quotes

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

David Foster Wallace

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• If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • School
  • Education
  • Better

• A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.

  

  Gary Speed
  • People
  • Player
  • Golf

• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Child
  • Losing
  • Horrible

• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Facts
  • Try
  • Flavor

• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Control
  • Failure
  • Fault

• I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Believe
  • War
  • Hate

• The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Page

• Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Vary

• Every crowd has a silver lining.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Crowd
  • Silver
  • Lining

• I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • World
  • High
  • Myself

• There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Religion

• Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Singing
  • Stage
  • Sharing

• My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Life
  • God
  • Words

• It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• The best type of date is when it's an unexpected thing. It could be starting as a friendship or a first meeting where you meet and then you end up talking for 15 hours in a row. That's kind of where you're so in sync that it's just cohesive and it's fun.

  

  Nolan Gerard Funk
  • Talking
  • Unexpected
  • Date

• The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Forever
  • Lead
  • Normal Life

• The weird thing is, 'Game of Thrones,' people go to Iceland for three weeks, and it'd be like a small guerilla operation. 'Thor,' we went there for, like, five days, because we couldn't afford to be there any longer, because we were airlifting the entire contents of Hollywood into this country.

  

  Alan Taylor
  • People
  • Country
  • Game

• Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

  

  David Foster Wallace