David Shields quote: "I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom."

Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is ...
DAVID SHIELDS

If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of...
DAVID SHIELDS

Flipping through the channels late at night, I'll come across 'The Longest Yard' and not...
DAVID SHIELDS

Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolst...
DAVID SHIELDS

I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortab...
DAVID SHIELDS

In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience - a few more people s...
DAVID SHIELDS

Seattle is still more Caucasian than most medium-sized cities. The sort of psychosexual politics of ...
DAVID SHIELDS

One of my clearest, happiest memories is of myself at fourteen, sitting up in bed, being handed a la...
DAVID SHIELDS

In the NBA, as in nowhere else in America, white people are utterly beholden to black people, and th...
DAVID SHIELDS

Centenarians tend to be assertive, suspicious, and practical.
DAVID SHIELDS

A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean....
DAVID SHIELDS

All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.
DAVID SHIELDS

Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a ...
DAVID SHIELDS

Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back the...
DAVID SHIELDS

I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially ...
DAVID SHIELDS

We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since t...
DAVID SHIELDS

When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moine...
DAVID SHIELDS

In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearie...
DAVID SHIELDS

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.
DAVID SHIELDS

We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.
DAVID SHIELDS

I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravi...
DAVID SHIELDS

I felt like I was definitely seeing something - the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost ...
DAVID SHIELDS

I think there are people who are born storytellers. I think of someone like T. C. Boyle or Gabriel G...
DAVID SHIELDS

My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-...
DAVID SHIELDS

The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.
DAVID SHIELDS

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.
DAVID SHIELDS

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.
DAVID SHIELDS

I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclass...
DAVID SHIELDS

I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.
DAVID SHIELDS

It's hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that i...
DAVID SHIELDS

It's a very difficult area to develop. You need sophisticated drilling techniques to develop it comm...
DAVID SHIELDS

To me it's entirely speculative and hypothetical.
DAVID SHIELDS

We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-...
DAVID SHIELDS

Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetic...
DAVID SHIELDS

It's hard to compensate for a super giant field with something much less than a super giant field.
DAVID SHIELDS

Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabun...
DAVID SHIELDS

This was in fact before the establishment of the embassy last year, and proved to have been very use...
DAVID SHIELDS

I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and...
DAVID SHIELDS

The originating sin of America is slavery, for which reparations should be paid and will never be pa...
DAVID SHIELDS

The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the North...
DAVID SHIELDS

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual ar...
DAVID SHIELDS

What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that'...
DAVID SHIELDS

Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pre...
DAVID SHIELDS

I am interested in work that jumps boundaries, and that makes trouble. Part of me is comfortable wit...
DAVID SHIELDS

Considering the relatively brief careers of professional athletes, teenagers who are good enough to ...
DAVID SHIELDS

Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-b...
DAVID SHIELDS

The ways in which I was obsessed with Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp 20 years ago is completely replicat...
DAVID SHIELDS

I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.
DAVID SHIELDS

I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence,...
DAVID SHIELDS

I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now ...
DAVID SHIELDS

The 'Times' is understood to be almost the unofficial biographer of the country, in some str...
DAVID SHIELDS

All art is theft.
DAVID SHIELDS

Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the ...
DAVID SHIELDS

Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflec...
DAVID SHIELDS

Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their ev...
DAVID SHIELDS

You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political push...
DAVID SHIELDS

A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.
DAVID SHIELDS

As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks...
DAVID SHIELDS

Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the ...
DAVID SHIELDS

Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.
DAVID SHIELDS

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
BROOKE SHIELDS

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.
BROOKE SHIELDS

I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a fam...
WILLOW SHIELDS

The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really c...
BROOKE SHIELDS

I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us ag...
BROOKE SHIELDS

What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of ...
BROOKE SHIELDS

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator th...
MARK SHIELDS

I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find t...
BROOKE SHIELDS

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
CAROL SHIELDS

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm ...
BROOKE SHIELDS

Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.
BROOKE SHIELDS

I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known...
BROOKE SHIELDS

The device is important for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it's fabricated in a similar way to an ord...
ANDREW SHIELDS

The indium arsenide self-organizes into the dots, like raindrops on a car bonnet. We found that the ...
ANDREW SHIELDS

There's no reason, in theory, why we can't replicate this effect at room temperature, and we've alre...
ANDREW SHIELDS

You have to pick things that people will like around Christmas.
ANDREW SHIELDS

You learn about economics and mass produce little things to make a profit.
ANDREW SHIELDS

For the first time, we can produce pulses of photons that are regular and reliable enough to be used...
ANDREW SHIELDS

I love getting baths and going to the Korean spas and getting pummeled and scrubbed, and its so hot ...
BROOKE SHIELDS

Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was insti...
BROOKE SHIELDS

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break dow...
BROOKE SHIELDS

I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.
WILLOW SHIELDS

I have now appeared on Broadway four times and would not have been able to do it without the center....
BROOKE SHIELDS

My responsibility is not to say 'do exactly what I've done.' It's just to say this is what I did.
BROOKE SHIELDS

[Among replacements who were greeted with critical and audience approval were Reba McEntire in] Anni...
BROOKE SHIELDS

Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
BROOKE SHIELDS

Rigorous, published, peer-reviewed research clearly demonstrates that treatment works. Medications c...
BROOKE SHIELDS

I could never, ever have an abortion.
BROOKE SHIELDS

If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?
BROOKE SHIELDS

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever ...
BROOKE SHIELDS

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priorit...
BROOKE SHIELDS

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected ...
MARK SHIELDS

Currently, a lot of coaches are not truly trained in coaching cheerleading. They are just teachers t...
BRENDA SHIELDS

The 12-to-18-year-olds sustained primarily lower extremity injuries such as strains or sprains. The ...
BRENDA SHIELDS

This increase ... is most likely a result of an increase in the difficulty of stunts being attempted...
BRENDA SHIELDS

Ten or 15 years ago, they were basically standing leading cheers on the sidelines. They weren't thro...
BRENDA SHIELDS

These injuries more than doubled during the 13-year period we studied.
BRENDA SHIELDS

A set of universally enforced rules and regulations directed at increasing the safety of cheerleadin...
BRENDA SHIELDS

Currently a lot of schools and coaches have their own safety rules, but they're not the same as anot...
BRENDA SHIELDS

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.
CAROL SHIELDS

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something ...
CAROL SHIELDS

It was a very emotional time.
CAROL SHIELDS

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use l...
CAROL SHIELDS

Men are portrayed as buffoons these days and I was trying not to do that, but men are the ultimate m...
CAROL SHIELDS

As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserv...
BROOKE SHIELDS

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
BROOKE SHIELDS

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.
MARK SHIELDS

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that ...
BROOKE SHIELDS

If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the ...
MARK SHIELDS

We need to have a paradigm shift. What we've been doing hasn't been working.
STEVE SHIELDS

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you...
CAROL SHIELDS

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a g...
WILL SHIELDS

The long-range issues relate to helping people injured now remain good candidates for a future cure....
RICHARD SHIELDS

Mice come and they go. They may have been trapped and cleaned up. It would not be unusual to not cat...
DON SHIELDS

I think we put a pretty reasonable offer on the table this week and they objected to it.
STEVE SHIELDS

North Texas is a very difficult team to guard. We knew we would have our hands full getting out and ...
STEVE SHIELDS

I was real proud of our guys and their tenacity and staying together after we were down 12.
STEVE SHIELDS

We knew they were a very, very good basketball team coming in. Stew does a fantastic job, and they a...
STEVE SHIELDS

That's the way the game is played now, games are won on the power play and today was no different.
STEVE SHIELDS

What I want to do is just get myself in shape here. I came to the best spot in the American League. ...
STEVE SHIELDS

Brian said he would give me an opportunity. I feel like an idiot coming in and getting injured right...
STEVE SHIELDS

I have always liked lionesses. Female lions have always seemed like the best. They were really stron...
BROOKE SHIELDS

That's a tough spot to put yourself into, with one of the best RBI guys ever. I wish he would have h...
SCOT SHIELDS

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feel...
BROOKE SHIELDS

He became almost a parody of himself, if you recall that black hat he wore in Arizona while brandish...
MARK SHIELDS

We haul an awful lot of limestone out of the area that is used in numerous factories in and out of t...
GARY SHIELDS

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.
GILLIAN SHIELDS

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; th...
MARK SHIELDS

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections th...
MARK SHIELDS

It's different kinds of strengthening things. Some things that are more specific to strengthen the t...
WILL SHIELDS

That's our goal, to make it to Stanford. We'll have to beat one really good team, but I think we can...
LUKE SHIELDS

I had a very, very sub-par year last year, and to come out and win one of our majors is gratifying.
KEVIN SHIELDS

They would add beef stew meat or roasted beef bones, so you'd have beef stock flavored with crab, wh...
JOHN SHIELDS

To be a romantic is to believe anything can happen to us.
CAROL SHIELDS

Criminal background checks are not perfect and occasionally there's a problem. One child abused is o...
GREGG SHIELDS

We live in a democratic society, and it's our constitutional right to have equal rights,
JOHN SHIELDS

It's full of wonderful novice talent.
DALE SHIELDS

From surfeit to loss is a short line.
CAROL SHIELDS

The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms.
BROOKE SHIELDS

The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You...
MARK SHIELDS

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
CAROL SHIELDS

Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United...
MARK SHIELDS

We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and...
BROOKE SHIELDS

This may be a coincidence, but the last 48 hours have been relatively calm.
DCP SHIELDS

What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots...
BROOKE SHIELDS

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England...
MARK SHIELDS

We have not seen anywhere in town where we are worried about people coming in and out.
DON SHIELDS

We did look at the patient's workplace, but we did not find mice, or mice droppings.
DON SHIELDS

We're satisfied. We played two of our better ball games out here. We're young, with all juniors and ...
DON SHIELDS

It's a kind of game you like to have. You can't duplicate this atmosphere in practice. I was happy t...
DON SHIELDS

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.
MARK SHIELDS

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I cert...
BROOKE SHIELDS

He has not been charged, but is being detained and is still being interviewed by police. Like any ot...
DCP SHIELDS

Based on what information Superintendent Ford gives us we will decide whether to charge them or rele...
DCP SHIELDS

As I speak, the office is preparing to interview them, but it will be premature of me to say that th...
DCP SHIELDS

These initiatives are designed to improve the quality of life of the residents, and give them the co...
DCP SHIELDS

Our inquiries will continue throughout today (yesterday) until tomorrow (today) and then we will mak...
DCP SHIELDS

Our location is where we need to be. We're close to the courts, we're close to the law firms. . . . ...
DENNIS SHIELDS

That's just not the appropriate venue for that, ... The appropriate venue for that is in front of Co...
DENNIS SHIELDS

cover up a reorganization.
DENNIS SHIELDS

I think that, tactically, to put it into the military term, you are looking at trying to make an imp...
DENNIS SHIELDS

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to you...
MARK SHIELDS

Working with both of them has been just amazing because they're both so talented, and they're both s...
DALE SHIELDS

What I've tried to do with this cast is not give them a fish dinner but teach them how to fish.
DALE SHIELDS

Before, I took pictures and later wondered why. Now I take pictures, pick up brochures and save memo...
DANA SHIELDS

We instantly connect with each other. We see each others? pictures and share our lives.
DANA SHIELDS

I call it ?album-making? because all you have to do is put the pictures on and tell your story.
DANA SHIELDS

We are always doing maintenance and repairs on our lines, making sure everything is safe and in work...
GARY SHIELDS

We are very proud to be a part of the community here. Not only do we work with local businesses and ...
GARY SHIELDS

You get penalized if you don't have high taxes.
GARY SHIELDS

I think it'll be a wash out.
GARY SHIELDS

Here's the deal. I want people reading. We are professionals, and we need to be reading and studying...
GERALD SHIELDS

We had 20 presentations, and everyone had a chance to talk and ask questions about it. And out of th...
GERALD SHIELDS

We'll take a book like The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership or The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peo...
GERALD SHIELDS

It's more than just a book club. It's a way for me to invest in our people.
GERALD SHIELDS

Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience.
CAROLYN SHIELDS

The needs change. Sometimes Scout camps that were once outside of town are swallowed up by sprawl, o...
GREGG SHIELDS

We are deeply concerned for every person affected by the heat, and we sincerely hope they are back o...
GREGG SHIELDS

We didn't have any hint of any criminality. This is accidental, and we're going to look into ways to...
GREGG SHIELDS

We recognize that a growing portion of our population isn't Caucasian and isn't suburban, A lot of t...
GREGG SHIELDS

Thank God he's found. The boy's safe, and that's what's important.
GREGG SHIELDS

The overriding concern is always safety.
GREGG SHIELDS

A tragedy,
FRANK SHIELDS

I think of the present digital/IT evolution happening in the global industry as the most exciting pe...
FRANK SHIELDS

Over the past five years in particular new websites have been popping up all over the world, selling...
FRANK SHIELDS

There are more film schools here than any other city, pumping out more aspiring filmmakers, and ther...
FRANK SHIELDS

There is no distribution outlet for young bloods to exhibit,
FRANK SHIELDS

This could sap thousands of dollars from schools that are already financially strapped to provide ed...
GREG SHIELDS

The whole thing is, you don't know what's going to happen.
GREG SHIELDS

I'm pretty sure at that time economically it was very painful because I don't think they had insuran...
ED SHIELDS

Front Street was just about completely flattened.
ED SHIELDS

It was a path that looks just about like the worst areas in New Orleans.
ED SHIELDS

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature...
BROOKE SHIELDS

I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit ...
BROOKE SHIELDS

I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.
BROOKE SHIELDS

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amoun...
BROOKE SHIELDS

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.
BROOKE SHIELDS

Have faith in your own thoughts.
BROOKE SHIELDS

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I&#...
BROOKE SHIELDS

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, e...
BROOKE SHIELDS

I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.

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I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.

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