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Adults Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between…
- There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and…
- Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal…
- In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships.…
- I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel:…
- The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with…
- I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
- But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote…
- Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough…
- Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and…
More Adults Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working,… — Drew Barrymore
- I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to… — Roseanne Barr
- When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it,… — Drew Barrymore
- If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me… — Mario Batali
- There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard
- What is an adult? A child blown up by age. — Simone de Beauvoir
- The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. — Martha Beck
- Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. — Martha Beck
- Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children… — Martha Beck
- An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. — Pope Benedict XVI