David Sedaris Quotes

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

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• In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Present

• The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Time
  • History
  • Me

• I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Girl
  • Same
  • Lucky

• I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Want
  • You
  • Make It Happen

• Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Soul
  • Living
  • Talk

• My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • House
  • Jazz
  • Saturday

• Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Things
  • Now
  • Bravery

• I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Like
  • Design
  • Clothing

• As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Done
  • Think
  • Cleaning

• Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Actor
  • Everything

• Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Lost
  • Poetry
  • End

• Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Best
  • Celebration

• I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Smart

• I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Faith
  • Humility

• 'Give,' said the little stream, 'Give, oh give, give, oh give,'As it hurried down the hill.'I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener still.'

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Small

• Lead by examples, not words.

  

  Johnny Colt The Black Crowes
  • Words

• I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

  

  Andrej Pejic
  • People
  • Up
  • Boy

• It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Mistake
  • Mystery
  • Strangeness

• Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

  

  James Cook
  • Desire
  • Enhances
  • Going Without

• A lot of artists do music that never sees the light of day, and I know fans wanna hear it, but – sometimes – we get very selective or labels get selective about what they put out, but, nowadays, everything is digital with social media and people just wanna hear what you’re up to, what you’re doing.

  

  Carmit Bachar
  • People
  • Music
  • Hear

• Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

  

  David Sedaris