David Carr Quotes

#1. David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times,

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#2. you have been q the helper of the fatherless.

Anonymous

#3. Necessity is a mother.

David Carr

#4. Like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony ...

Mohsin Hamid

#5. The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail to notice the sparkle of the place, a scale and a kind of wonder that puts all human endeavors in their proper place.

David Carr

#6. I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

David Carr

#7. I came to give you life, real life, my life. We will come and live our life inside you, so that you begin to see with our eyes, and hear with our ears, and touch with our hands, and think like we do. But we will never force that union on you. If

Wm. Paul Young

#8. Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

David Carr

#9. Memory becomes not a faculty but a coconspirator, a tool for constructing the self that we show the world.

David Carr

#10. [C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What exactly is the point of that?

David Carr

#11. The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.

David Carr

#12. We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

David Carr

#13. End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

David Carr

#14. So when life throws a curve ball, do your best to hit it and run to first base. If it tries to get you out of the game, do your best to get to the home plate. Yes there will be those looking for you to fail, but there are also those who are cheering you on. If not then cheer for yourself!

Atlanta Hunter

#15. At the Nuremberg trials, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt described the actions and the architects of the Holocaust with a simple, memorable phase--saying that the whole lot represented 'the banality of evil.' Her long ago words applied well to the man before us.

Michael Morton

#16. Tucked in safe suburban redoubts, kids who had it soft like me manufactured peril.

David Carr

#17. Would you excuse us for just one moment?" she said to the Lynburn. "My colleague and I need to confer in our office." With that, she hauled Angela into the empty stationery cupboard and shut the door behind them.
In the darkness, Angela asked, "Why am I in a cupboard?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#18. I worked in television now for a few years. I think summer has become a really exciting time for television shows. And I think it's become a time for shows to distinguish themselves.

James Wolk

#19. When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.

Kevin Myers

#20. Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

David Carr

#21. I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Maya Angelou

#22. I used to dance, but now I only move.

Ben Vereen

#23. If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainer every day since.

David Carr