David Shields Quotes
All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.
Quotes to Explore
-
I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
-
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
-
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
-
I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
-
The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
-
There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
-
I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
-
People hate searching.
-
It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?
-
September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
-
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
-
When I taught, all my best students were women.
-
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
-
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
-
Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.
-
Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
-
An evil life is a kind of death.
-
I don't know how to thank everyone for all their help.
-
I was so depressed for so many years over trying to become a working comedian that my sense of self-worth would plummet.
-
It's complimacated. (sounds like compli-ma-kayted, emphasis on first syllable) 16
-
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
-
Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren’t democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we’re actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn’t be writing.
-
All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.
