Nazir Wallace Quotes

Trite though it (used to) sound, real sexuality is about our struggles to connect with one another, to erect bridges across the chasms that separate selves. Sexuality is, finally, about imagination. Thanks to brave people's recognition of AIDS as a fact of life, we are beginning to realize that highly charged sex can take place in all sorts of ways we'd forgotten or neglected - in a conversational nuance; in a body's posture, a certain pressure in a held hand. Sex can be everywhere we are, all the time. ~ David Foster Wallace

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. ~ David Foster Wallace

You were always an underdog in a videogame, but always guaranteed to win if you just kept plugging away, learned the moves, knew when to Save and when to Quit. ~ Danny Wallace

If he didn't want to be mauled by a sex-starved woman who hadn't gotten any skin in months, he'd better keep his hands to himself. ~ Jody Wallace

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. ~ David Foster Wallace

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it. ~ David Foster Wallace

More and more I knew my budding world was ruined if he were free in it. As a specimen Mr. Wallace might be my pride. Glory to him in a jar. But free! Better to release the sweet moving tiger or the delicate snake, the monumental elephant. I was just a castaway to be devoured. ~ William H Gass

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing - your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal. ~ David Foster Wallace

We must realize that people do not have to conform to one another. We are after all, ultimately beholden to ourselves. ~ Carlos Wallace

What renders a truth meaningful, worthwhile, & c. is its relevance, which in turn requires extraordinary discernment and sensitivity to context, questions of value, and overall point - otherwise we might as well all just be computers downloading raw data to one another.) ~ David Foster Wallace

People always related to President Bush, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, his numbers collapsed because people didn't feel like he handled those properly. Obama is the inverse. He was elected because he was an extraordinary guy, but the fact that he isn't ordinary has turned out to be politically damaging. ~ Nicolle Wallace

Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point. ~ Wallace Stevens

The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair. ~ Wallace Stevens

You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain. ~ David Foster Wallace

Sentence-by-sentence basis - that it's okay if a person ~ David Foster Wallace

If I'm hanging out with you, I can't even tell whether I like you or not because I'm too worried about whether you like me. ~ David Foster Wallace

I say is someone in there?' The voice is the young post-New formalist from
Pittsburgh who affects Continental and wears an ascot that won't stay tight, with that
hesitant knocking of when you know perfectly well someone's in there, the
bathroom door composed of thirty-six that's three times a lengthwise twelve
recessed two-bevelled squares in a warped rectangle of steam-softened wood, not
quite white, the bottom outside corner right here raw wood and mangled from
hitting the cabinets' bottom drawer's wicked metal knob, through the door and
offset 'Red' and glowering actors and calendar and very crowded scene and pubic
spirals of pale blue smoke from the elephant-colored rubble of ash and little
blackened chunks in the foil funnel's cone, the smoke's baby-blanket blue that's sent
her sliding down along the wall past knotted washcloth, towel rack, blood-flower
wallpaper and intricately grimed electrical outlet, the light sharp bitter tint of a heated
sky's blue that's left her uprightly fetal with chin on knees in yet another North
American bathroom, deveiled, too pretty for words, maybe the Prettiest Girl Of All
Time (Prettiest G.O.A.T.), knees to chest, slew-footed by the radiant chill of the
claw-footed tub's porcelain, Molly's had somebody lacquer the tub in blue, lacquer,
she's holding the bottle, recalling vividly its slogan for the past generation was The
Choice of a Nud ~ David Foster Wallace

I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually. ~ Nicolle Wallace

In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs. ~ Daniel B. Wallace

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. ~ Lew Wallace

Barely able to breathe, Eva's tongue slipped across her lips.
He moved a bit closer. "Every time ye walk past, I want ye. Your scent sends my insides into a maelstrom of need."
She closed her eyes and drew out the moment, wishing he'd say that again. Oh, how delectable to listen to a medieval Scotsman declare his desire. ~ Amy Jarecki

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. ~ David Foster Wallace

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit. ~ Wallace Stegner

Across the intersection he could see the crumbling blue-green facade of the Palace Amusements building, the grinning ten-foot-high face on its north wall smiling out on empty streets and vacant lots. The arcade entrances were covered with plywood; broken neon tubing hung from the walls. He thought of the hours he had spent there as a kid, playing pinball, firing the real .22s in the shooting gallery, riding the bumper cars. It hurt to look at it now. ~ Wallace Stroby

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.
(Letter to A. R. Wallace July 1866) ~ Charles Darwin

Current mood: David Foster Wallace meets Amy Winehouse. ~ Michelle Hodkin

I had it all planned. Or, not planned exactly, but I'd planned to make plans. Plans were very much part of my plan. ~ Danny Wallace

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me. ~ Wallace Stegner

Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect. ~ Wallace D. Wattles

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. ~ Henry A. Wallace

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness. ~ David Foster Wallace

The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story. ~ Mike Wallace

Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment or, in other words, his right to be rich. ~ Wallace D. Wattles

Our leaders, our government is us, all of us, so if they're venal and weak it's because we are. ~ David Foster Wallace

The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems. ~ Nicolle Wallace

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. ~ Wallace Stevens

It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death. I know he loves me. ~ Lew Wallace

My husband saw me go through the 2008 campaign cycle. We did it together for Sarah Palin and John McCain. It ended disastrously, and afterward I really wanted to do something different, so I started writing novels, and I imagined a fictional female president in my head. ~ Nicolle Wallace

Hope deals with the future; now and the past are but servants that wait on her with impulse and suggestive circumstance. ~ Lew Wallace

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality. ~ Wallace Stegner

Rod and Tom and I had that three-planked platform-exhibit. One: waste. Two: no new enhancements. Three: find somebody outside the borders of our community selves to blame. T ~ David Foster Wallace

It was soldier's went marching over the rocks,
and still they came in watery flocks,
because it was spring and the birds had to come,
No doubt that soldier's had to be marching,
and that the drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling ~ Wallace Stevens

That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. ~ David Foster Wallace

Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better. ~ Carlos Wallace