David Foster Wallace Quotes

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

David Foster Wallace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1962 - December 12, 2008

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FirePainCulturesWithoutGoing

And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.

Mel Tillis

GodChurchYearWillFirstMissouri

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

John Kricfalusi

WantHumanAudienceJustCartoons

Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.

John Lewis

HopeLoseNeverSenseHopeful

'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time we play it. I just love the sound of it, and I feel like everybody probably has that person that they never fully forget or never can get past.

Matthew Ramsey

LoveTimePastMeWritingSong

Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.

Steven Blum

GoodLoyaltyMoneyMeInfluence

I thought 'Heller' was a very bad decision.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

DecisionThoughtBadVery

Philadelphia is a town where even the sidewalks seem to sweat.

Mike Barnicle

SweatPhiladelphiaSeemWhereEven

The first robot in Neom will be Neom itself.

Mohammad bin Salman

WillRobotFirstItself

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

Julia Child

TimeJobCakeIdeasYouFind

I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

Judith Martin

RulesMannersPrinciplesCultures

I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

Jordana Brewster

CompanyTwoProductionWorking

'Daredevil' is haunted by Frank Miller, from the standpoint of the Frank Miller run on 'Daredevil' is so insurmountable.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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