William Gaddis Quotes

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

William Gaddis

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• I wanted to go to college and play football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • College
  • Play
  • Football

• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Me
  • Hate
  • Very

• Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Long
  • Want
  • Body

• The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • House

• There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Need
  • Potential
  • Cooperation

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Los Angeles
  • Bit
  • Nashville

• The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Country

• Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Work
  • Spiritual
  • Meaning

• When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • You

• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Will
  • Anything

• I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Myself
  • See
  • Someone

• Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Imagination
  • Wine

• At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Heart

• If I prove a bad president, I will also likely to prove the last president.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Bad

• While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Fear
  • Community
  • Fall

• Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Purpose
  • Jail
  • Arrested

• He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

  

  William Gaddis
  • Wish
  • Morning
  • Cold