David Foster Wallace Quotes

'You know what your problem is, Hallie?' 'I have just one problem?'

David Foster Wallace

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• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Two

• Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Thousand

• No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

  

  P. F. Strawson
  • Thought
  • Own
  • Contemporary

• When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Conservative
  • Democrat

• An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Author
  • Characters
  • Wants

• I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Job
  • Control
  • Myself

• I'm in good shape.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Shape

• We have a very long way to go to really penetrate the power structure. Until that happens, you will not see stability among the workforce, among women - in the workforce among women.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Long
  • Women
  • Power

• I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Best

• Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Enjoy

• Se, depois de eu morrer, quiserem escrever a minha biografia,Não há nada mais simples.Tem só duas datas-a da minha nascença e a da minha morte.Entre uma e outra coisa todos os dias são meus.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• If the man who turnips cries,Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had ratherHave a turnip than his father.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Father

• It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • People
  • Why
  • Support

• I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of 'conservative' as, say, Rand Paul. The word is close to losing almost all meaning.

  

  Charlie Sykes

• Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.

  

  Billy Martin Good Charlotte
  • People
  • Great
  • Game

• I don't like to come to tournaments, like, one week before, because I just need, like, a few days, and then I'm ready to go for it.

  

  Angelique Kerber

• Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • World
  • Family
  • True

• Assad has to go. I mean, the way that ISIS can recruit, and the rebels that are in the north, and all the chaos that's happening through a lot of Syria circles around a lot of people that do not like Assad.

  

  James Lankford
  • People
  • Chaos

• You ever want me to show you what it's like to have a man in your bed, you know where to find me.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Want
  • Show
  • Bed

• You know, everyone thinks we got this broken down horse and fixed him, but we didn't. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess in a way, we fixed each other, too.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Broken
  • Horse

• We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

  

  Jinato Hu
  • World
  • Strong
  • Peace

• I would like to work with Ed Sheeran at some point. I really admire his songwriting, and I just think he has a great voice and great artistry. Who else? On the producer side of things, definitely Diplo: that'd be awesome.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Work
  • Great
  • Awesome

• 'You know what your problem is, Hallie?' 'I have just one problem?'

  

  David Foster Wallace