Eudora Welty Quotes

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

Eudora Welty

• Voice
• Speak
• Honest
• Writers

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • God
  • Believe
  • Energy

• I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Feel
  • Story
  • Very

• I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Connection

• Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Music
  • Science
  • Literature

• I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Men
  • Look
  • Old

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Done
  • Nice
  • New York

• Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Nature
  • Risk
  • Mistakes

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Long
  • Real
  • Help

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Women
  • Drama
  • Movies

• Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Class
  • Luxury
  • Structures

• It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.

  

  Dana Perino
  • School
  • Change
  • Year

• This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • American
  • Together

• If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Rest

• I always try to make each character my own.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Character
  • Always
  • Try

• Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Change
  • Shoes
  • Without

• I read a lot of scripts, and there's a lot of good writing and a lot of OK writing and a lot of crappy writing. And even with the really good writing, it doesn't necessarily speak to me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Speak

• I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Long
  • Beginning
  • Silence

• To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Honest

• All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Voice
  • Speak
  • Honest