Joy Williams Quotes
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
Joy Williams
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor
I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
Fiona Apple
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
Adam Hochschild
I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run.
Christina Aguilera
Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
Oswald Chambers
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
Lou Holtz
Are there no prisons?
Charles Dickens
Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.
Amy Lee
Evanescence
If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.
Michel Gondry
I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.
Curtis Hanson
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.
Plato
In the same way that people can drive each other mad, the company of people, and being understood by people, can also heal us.
Bessel van der Kolk
Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.
Zhang Zhidong
Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
Joy Williams
