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
Quotes to Explore
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've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. I also never forgot something Johnny Depp said to me, which Marlon Brando said to him, 'You only have so many faces in your pocket.' I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.
Rupert Friend
There's a genuine disconnect between the anti-choice movement and people who identify as 'pro-life' but aren't in the movement. ..Saying you're 'pro-life' is more about marking you as a member of a tribe, pledging fealty to your faith or to your identity as a 'conservative,' for a lot of people.
Amanda Marcotte
