William Empson Quotes

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What's become of me or you? Are we kind or are we true? Sitting two and two, boys, waiting for the end.

William Empson

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• I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Movies

• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Crazy
  • Speak
  • Voice

• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Winter
  • Oil
  • Juice

• I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Body

• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

  

  Tacitus
  • Things
  • All Things
  • Rome

• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Just
  • Enlightenment

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Law
  • Action
  • Fast

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• The French complain of everything, and always.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Complain

• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Word
  • Will

• If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • Forever
  • Young

• Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

  

  Galina Vishnevskaya
  • Know
  • Color
  • Voice

• I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Mom
  • Things
  • Anymore

• Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Voice
  • Dictates
  • Satyagrahi

• I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don't know if boys still play war, they probably do, but we were thrusting ourselves into recent history and we were always fighting either the Nazis or the Japanese.

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • War
  • Fighting

• From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • Action
  • Beginning

• There's not an anti-Toto spray that will keep us down.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Spray
  • Anti-Toto

• Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What's become of me or you? Are we kind or are we true? Sitting two and two, boys, waiting for the end.

  

  William Empson
  • Kind
  • Waiting
  • Boys