Dave > Dave's Quotes

“But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.”
― Frank Bidart

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Everything you want in life has teeth.”
― Jonathan Carroll, From the Teeth of Angels

“We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.”
― José Saramago

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke