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 love my fans so much! I know I say it all the time, but I really appreciate all the things they have done for me.
Ariana Grande
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
In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?
Eileen Simpson
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde
