Don DeLillo Quotes

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

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• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Law
  • First

• My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.

  

  K. Flay
  • Weird
  • Perspective
  • My Own

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Irish
  • Wings
  • Mythology

• I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • American
  • Age

• The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Manners
  • Even

• Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • True
  • You
  • Wisdom

• I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Song

• Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Great
  • Small
  • Wisdom

• When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Up
  • Blood
  • Media

• Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • Art
  • Way

• There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • World
  • Terrible
  • Throats

• If you want to be loved, be lovable.

  

  Ovid
  • Want
  • Loved
  • Lovable

• I just want to have fun.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Have Fun

• I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Never
  • Been

• Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Probably

• You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • School
  • Help

• A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Books
  • Author
  • Say

• You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Cancer
  • Maturity
  • Nurse

• I do not believe-indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe-that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary to remedy it, but I do believe that the exercise of reason is at all times necessary...

  

  Peter Medawar
  • Believe
  • Exercise

• When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.

  

  John Updike
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Reality

• Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Reality

• Being critical of yourself is important sometimes: not during the season, because you need to be confident, but during the winter, it's always a good time to look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'This, this, and this I need to improve.' That's how it is.

  

  Jean-Eric Vergne
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

  

  Don DeLillo