Don DeLillo Quotes

I had centered myself, learning of the existence of an interior motion, a shift in the levels from isolation to solitude to wordlessness to immobility. When Opel occupied that center I became the thing that swirled.

Don DeLillo

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• I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Soul
  • Myself

• I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Innocent
  • Too Much
  • Too

• Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Couple
  • Years

• This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.

  

  Larry Bucshon
  • Good
  • Family
  • Power

• Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Personality
  • Human
  • Him

• I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Long
  • Day
  • Water

• I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Know
  • Restaurant

• It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.

  

  Banks
  • Funny
  • Social Media
  • Contact

• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Moment
  • Living

• I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Never
  • Television
  • Before

• If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Good
  • Smelling
  • Splurge

• When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • People
  • California
  • Say

• I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Success

• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Work
  • God
  • Present

• It's always nice to come home and work in Australia with friends I've known since I started.

  

  Alyssa Sutherland
  • Work
  • Home
  • Friends

• I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

  

  Peter Medawar

• When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Culture

• When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Work
  • Help
  • Gun

• The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • House
  • Manhattan
  • Valhalla

• I had centered myself, learning of the existence of an interior motion, a shift in the levels from isolation to solitude to wordlessness to immobility. When Opel occupied that center I became the thing that swirled.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Learning
  • Solitude