« All Why Quotes · David Foster Wallace's Page
Why Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest…
- You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on…
- The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
- I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.
- Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?
- It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass…
- And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an…
- Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?
- 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:…
- Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's…
- In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep…
- How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and…
More Why Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad
- What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood