Time Quotes by Dave Eggers

“Director of Ensuring the Future”

— Dave Eggers

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

— Dave Eggers

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so…

— Dave Eggers

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

— Dave Eggers

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to…

— Dave Eggers

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

— Dave Eggers

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

— Dave Eggers

“There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until…

— Dave Eggers

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare…

— Dave Eggers

“Your life has been lived a hundred times. A thousand times. It's not all that great, really. Don't take it so seriously.…

— Dave Eggers

“If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were…

— Dave Eggers

“It was as if, for a moment, she thought Mae was one kind of person, but now, knowing she was another, she…

— Dave Eggers

“We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible…

— Dave Eggers

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time…

— Dave Eggers

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You…

— Dave Eggers

“It occurred to her, in a moment of sudden clarity, that what had always caused her anxiety, or stress, or worry, was…

— Dave Eggers

“I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to…

— Dave Eggers

The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer’s voice,…

— Dave Eggers

Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that…

— Dave Eggers

Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is…

— Dave Eggers

“We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known…

— Dave Eggers

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the…

— Dave Eggers

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have…

— Dave Eggers

“I am your shower curtain and I am watching you. I surround you, I shield you, and I like you. I like…

— Dave Eggers

“Maybe I wanted to be crushed, too. To be ready you need to be tired, and you need to have seen a…

— Dave Eggers

“I wanted so many times while driving to flip, to skid and flip and fall from the car and have something happen.…

— Dave Eggers

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind…

— Dave Eggers

If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining…

— Dave Eggers

At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine…

— Dave Eggers

I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and…

— Dave Eggers

“So this is how they lived. For some time Theo, like a tree living in the shadow of taller trees, found a…

— Dave Eggers

“Don't flatter yourself to think this is your doing. Your problem is that you think things have happened for the first time…

— Dave Eggers

I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere,…

— Dave Eggers

“In her life Josie had heard only one or two people apologize. Wasn't that something? Wouldn't that be significant to future anthropologists?…

— Dave Eggers

Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that…

— Dave Eggers

My parents told me they were going to kill me at least a thousand times growing up. "I'm gonna kill you," and…

— Dave Eggers

I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther…

— Dave Eggers

How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we…

— Dave Eggers

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need…

— Dave Eggers

So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of…

— Dave Eggers