J. H. Williams III Quotes
However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry — because they prevent us from telling the best stories we can. So, after a lot of soul-searching, we’ve decided to leave the book after Issue 26.
Quotes to Explore
-
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
-
I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
-
Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
-
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
-
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
-
The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
-
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
-
I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
-
I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
-
The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
-
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
-
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
-
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
-
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
-
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
-
I started cooking out of middle school depression.
-
We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
-
The good romances are as good as anything.
-
The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
-
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
-
I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.
-
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.
-
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
-
However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry — because they prevent us from telling the best stories we can. So, after a lot of soul-searching, we’ve decided to leave the book after Issue 26.
