Don DeLillo Quotes

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

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• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Law
  • First

• 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

• It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Unhappy

• In a society of employees dominated by the marketing mentality, it is inevitable that a personality market should arise. For in the great shift from manual skills to the art of 'handling', selling and servicing people, personal or even intimate traits of employees are drawn into the sphere of exchange and become commodities in the labor market.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • People
  • Great
  • Art

• Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

  

  John Deacon Queen
  • Together
  • Learning
  • Theatre

• If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Fortune
  • Rainbow
  • Traveled

• What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Book
  • Want
  • Christian

• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • She
  • Gifts
  • Four

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

  

  Don DeLillo