Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Foster Wallace

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

David Foster Wallace

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

David Foster Wallace

It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to know already that she has a tattoo of a sundered valentine with the tagline Heart Breaker on her right buttock and a tiny hairless ole just left of her anus.

David Foster Wallace

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

David Foster Wallace

You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.

David Foster Wallace

I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.

David Foster Wallace

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

David Foster Wallace

My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.

David Foster Wallace

It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?

David Foster Wallace

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

David Foster Wallace

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

David Foster Wallace

I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

David Foster Wallace

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

David Foster Wallace

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

David Foster Wallace

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

David Foster Wallace

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

David Connolly

In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.

David Cone

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

David Cone

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

David Cone

I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.

David Cook

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

David Cook

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

David Chipperfield

Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.

David Chipperfield

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

David Chipperfield

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

David Coleman

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.

David Coverdale

People think that I don't like women.

David Coverdale

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

David Coverdale

When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

David Coverdale

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

David Coverdale

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

David Coulthard

I think there is a guy called Michael. It looks as though he’s got a talent. He will make his way to F1.

David Copperfield

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.