"We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils." — Dave Eggers
"We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils."
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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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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases…
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Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to…
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it.…
— Michael Badnarik
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There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there…
— Gisele Bundchen
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When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your…
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The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the…
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And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms…
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There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread…
— Graydon Carter
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky,…
— Raymond Chandler
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You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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