David Goodis Quotes

#1. I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

Noah Baumbach

#2. For all the jokes and complaints about the aches of air travel, it's pretty marvelous, if you think about it.

Tsh Oxenreider

#3. The trouble with people is they don't understand people.

David Goodis

#4. Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door.

David Goodis

#5. A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Douglas Coupland

#6. It was very fast, that first time. They were on the couch, and then they were off the couch and it was all over. It was like jumping out the window and landing on the street. A quick ride, just like that.

David Goodis

#7. It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

Neil Gaiman

#8. We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

Roger Moore

#9. You look nice in those old slacks, but in the raw you are Beauty herself.

Kenneth Patchen

#10. Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

Christine McVie

#11. Her features were thin and her skin was pale and she was certainly not pretty. But it was an exciting face. It was terribly exciting because it radiated something that a man couldn't see with his eyes but could definitely feel in his bloodstream.

David Goodis

#12. It began with a shattered dream.

David Goodis

#13. There's nothing fragile about this one. That ain't a fragile nose or mouth or chin, and yet it's female, more female than them fragile-pretty types who look more like ornaments than girls.

David Goodis

#14. Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

Aeschylus

#15. Under the blanket the outline of her body was slender and displayed a certain innocence, a precious quality far more significant than the elegance of her form. She seemed to radiate kindness and essential goodness, and Darby, trying to measure the value of her, told himself it was immeasurable.

David Goodis

#16. When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

Scott McCloud

#17. I lost my spinal column a good many years ago. There ain't no surgery can put it back. Even if there was, I wouldn't want it. I like it better this way. More comfortable.

David Goodis

#18. I will work in partnership with the Government, all political parties, and civil society to safeguard and advance the future of all Singaporeans.

Tony Tan

#19. How awful for you! By the looks of it, you've developed a soul.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#20. Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about shopping?' Rob countered.
'I feel so torn!' Matty pulled at his hair. 'Oh my god. You suck.

Leta Blake

#21. I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.

Woody Hayes

#22. You ever wonder why people get out of bed in the morning? why do they bother? why not just drink turpentine?

Janet Fitch

#23. He told himself she wasn't really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her make-up, something that kept her from fading clear of people when they wanted to be in the clear.

David Goodis

#24. In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Joni Mitchell

#25. A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the street a fat man, aproned and puffing, emerged from a restaurant and whiffed the cold air and gazed yearningly at the sky. As though even the dreams were up there, much too far away.

David Goodis

#26. It's just that I'm curious, that's all. He usually walks alone" "Yeah, he's a loner, all right," the waitress murmured. "Even when he's with someone, he's alone.

David Goodis

#27. David Goodis didn't write novels, he wrote suicide notes.

Ed Gorman