Dave Eggers Quotes

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

Dave Eggers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1970

Topics

SchoolReadingHigh SchoolOwnership

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.

Jerry Seinfeld

TrappedOldAudienceBecausePrefer

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

Maurice Sendak

ChildrenParentsMomYouKnowWant

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

UnderstandExpensiveGotFilmEven

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.

Rush Limbaugh

FreedomBattleGivingGiving UpOver

Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my mind was through the environment, those elected officials seemed to be the ones who made a lot of the important decisions, if not the most important decisions.

Mike Quigley

PoliticsMindWorldDecisionsEnough

In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.

Luke Evans

HonestyActingYearsUpShouldLark

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

Luke Perry

MistakesPeopleChoicesThinkOwn

If we want every car on the road to be a Lyft, we need to make it incredibly convenient for drivers.

Logan Green

CarRoadWantNeedMakeDrivers

There is no way to have a strong arm if you don't throw enough.

Juan Marichal

StrongEnoughYouWayThrowArm

You know, if you meet someone for the first time, they're not going to bite you.

Chloe Kim

TimeSomeoneYouKnowMeetFirst

The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.

Brian Blessed

DayFireEvery DayBreadRadioUp

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

Sylvia Earle

LifeWaterBlueGreenNo Life

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