Dave Eggers Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Dave Eggers on Wise Famous Quotes.
Knowledge is a basic human right. Equal access to all possible human experiences is a basic human right.
What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant chaos. I'd lose my mind.
Dan nodded emphatically, as if his mouth had just uttered, independently, something that his ears found quite profound.
Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.
He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.
Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.
People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry.
How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.
She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.
The needed to talk about Annie, the thoughts she was thinking. Why shouldn't they know them? The world deserved nothing less and would not wait.
For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.
She backed away, looking at him, his shirt hiked up, his crotch exposed. She could think only of a campfire, one small log, all of it doused in milk.
But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.
After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned
After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned
The Pakistan fundraiser was thoroughly inspiring - the event was able to amass 2.3 million smiles for the school
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.
My Cuddle Time Bible Story Book
Sleeping with Jesus
Baby Bibles: Tall Tales for Tiny tots
Everybody Poops (Except God)
Sleeping with Jesus
Baby Bibles: Tall Tales for Tiny tots
Everybody Poops (Except God)
Nicaragua sounded dangerous; she liked the word. Nicaragua! It sounded like some kind of spider. There it goes, under the table - Nicaragua!
Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.
Don't you think if someone like me, someone who invented most of this shit, is scared, don't you think you should be scared, too?
Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.
I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.
I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.
Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
It was a sad place, especially after a day at the Circle, where all was made with care and love and the gift of a good eye.
To be described is to be seduced. Shit. One turn of phrase. One thing noticed that she'd never noticed. It works always.
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
First of all, I know it's all people like you. And that's what's so scary. Individually you don't know what you're doing collectively.
People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.
This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.
There were people in the world for whom the world and its people were subjects on which to cast spells.
I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.
The work of man is done behind the back of the natural world. When nature notices, and can muster the energy, it wipes the slate clean again.
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.
No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.