David Shields Quotes

As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1956

Topics

WorkMoreEmbarrassingBreaksGets

The only 'special supplements' I'm using is two hard and bloody trainings per day, five days a week.

Mirko Cro Cop

DayWeekSpecialHardTwoDays

You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.

Drew Carey

WomenMeYouLookSexKnow

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Donald Trump

BossFirstSecretaryThingTypes

At the end of 'Afterlife' - hmm, how do I do this without spoilers - Skye took a very strange journey that crossed the boundary between life and death. And now, for her, that boundary is permanently blurred.

Claudia Gray

LifeJourneyDeathEndNowStrange

As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.

Austin Ligon

GrowthActionSparkKnowPresident

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

Atul Gawande

HealthBuildingCareHouseTask

Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.

Philipp Meyer

MindWritingFeelCaloriesWorkout

Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify.

Peter Landesman

StoryDataYouSometimesMoreTell

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.

Sheryl Swoopes

BasketballDoneNeverOutSeason

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

Seamus Heaney

ClimbListeningMoreUpBigSofa

After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists.

Noam Chomsky

ChangePeopleSocietyClimate Change

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

Mark Zuckerberg

PeopleThinkDesireAlwaysCoreWho

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