"He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to……" — Dave Eggers
"He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries."
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182 Quotes by Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers has 182 quotes on this site.
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WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
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Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
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You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have…
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Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it…
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It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.
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Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions,…
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The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next…
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Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back…
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You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one…
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We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.
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The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
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There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.
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Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that…
— Ernie Banks
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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
— Tony Benn
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams,…
— John Berger
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
— Kate Bosworth
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I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got…
— Jerry Bruckheimer
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches…
— Andrew Carnegie
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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun,…
— Francois Magendie
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If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be…
— Dwight L. Moody
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention,…
— William Shakespeare
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Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size…
— Al McGuire
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