Victor LaValle Quotes

I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.

Victor LaValle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 3, 1972

Topics

FaithPeopleBelieveAmericanAir

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.

Joe Hill

WorkLiveSkyDieYouPie

I believe I'm the best guy in the world.

Max Holloway

BestWorldBelieveI BelieveGuy

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

Jeff Buckley

ArtMeCensorshipWarningFact

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

Meredith Whitney

PastDebtRealYearsNirvanaBeen

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.

Steve Case

FatherMeBuildingThinkGrowNever

I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

Steven Heighton

NationalismCountryCanadaKindNeed

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

Simon Travaglia

TimeBookRestYouFindSaid

When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want - no guessing.

Rod Lurie

OpportunityYouFindWantFrame

I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.

Rollo May

ScienceManSeriouslyStudyImage

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Luigi Pirandello

Stand UpStandYouFeelingsPlace

If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.

Brad Goreski

WorkPeopleWantComplimentHimOff

I started doing stand-up when I was 16, my junior year in high school. My two friends and I would sit at home watching stand-up. They kept saying I should try it, and so I did.

Pete Davidson

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