Lydia Davis Quotes

I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and, almost more importantly, how long it would sustain anybody's interest.

Lydia Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 15, 1947

Topics

BeginningThinkLongMoreRightBig

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifeBlessedDoingLikingLike

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.

Andrew J. Bernstein

LifeJobWifeBossParentsBelieve

When I was a kid, pre-1994 was still apartheid, so we didn't get a lot the subversive music from the States or from the U.K. A lot of the music we would get was the poppiest pop music, so I've never really had a bad association it.

St. Lucia

MusicBadNeverKidGetAssociation

You've got to acknowledge what you did wrong and see if you can fix it to the extent possible, and turn the page.

Tony La Russa

YouWrongPagePossibleFixSee

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

Robert Dallek

PolicyForeign PolicyEisenhower

My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs.

Mitch McConnell

LifeMemoryWarmFirstLastVisit

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

Judith Light

FocusFightFindingHumanRights

I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness.

Douglas Coupland

CultureThinkSomeoneSmilingBack

Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.

Boomer Esiason

MoneyYourselfFightChildHelpYou

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Brandon Boyd

PaintingSongYouKnowDoneJust

How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Alice James

GoodRespectMyselfSickSelfishness

This is an age where you could put anything on YouTube; people can make films on their own.

Susan Kelechi Watson

AgePeopleYouYouTubeAnythingOwn

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