David Foster Wallace Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beautiful, Sports, Smart

  "The String Theory" by David Foster Wallace, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2008.

• The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Coffee, Eye

• The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so terribly eager to see and hear and let him (the son) know he was seen and heard, the son had become a steadily more and more hidden boy, toward the wraith's life's end; and no one else in the wraith and the boy's nuclear family would see or acknowledge this, the fact that the graceful and marvelous boy was disappearing, right before their eyes. They looked but did not see his invisibility.

  David Foster Wallace

  Eye, Son, Boys

• I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.

  David Foster Wallace

  Eye, Color, Sun

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.56, Penguin

• The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’

  David Foster Wallace

  Eye, Artist, Risk

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, p.65, Hachette UK

• The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

  David Foster Wallace

  Eye, Purpose, Hush

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