Don Delillo White Noise Quotes

#1. The spark of wondering is the start of writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Do you think I'm somehow healthier because I don't know how to repress? Is it possible that constant fear is the natural state of man and that by living close to my fear I am actually doing something heroic, Murray?"
Do you feel heroic?"
No."
Then you probably aren't.

Don DeLillo

#3. Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious.

Kevin Barry

#4. True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

Myles Munroe

#5. They were cowards, too. Everyone is.

John Green

#6. Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

John Grogan

#7. ... life isn't a battle between us and the rest of the world, but rather a battle to overcome ourselves - our inimitable egos ...

Renee Paule

#8. Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

Don DeLillo

#9. And next thing you know, six of my best apprentices get purged for minor paperwork discrepancies and perhaps an unreported cock or two.

Kameron Hurley

#10. For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.

Tori Amos

#11. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

Molly Ivins

#12. I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

Randy Newman

#13. Sounds like a boring life."
"I hope it lasts forever," she said.

Don DeLillo

#14. Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow.

Confucius

#15. At the best of times I don't have the kind of voice anyone would want to hear mangling their favorite songs.

Sherwood Smith

#16. Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. I would have done anything. Don't you know that?"
"No."
"Then you haven't been paying close attention. I love you. Even more than gold and dreams, I love you. It seems insane you haven't realized it. You were the one who first informed me of it."
"I broke your leg," she said

Shana Abe

#18. I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia ... The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

Barack Obama

#19. The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.

George Carlin