William Gaddis Quotes

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

William Gaddis

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• Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • Know

• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Children
  • Business
  • Change

• I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Baby
  • Brothers
  • Communicators

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Before

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.

  

  Iman
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Night

• I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Design
  • Stuff
  • Dug

• Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Business
  • Model
  • Matter

• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Father
  • Think
  • Myself

• I would love to work with Matt Damon.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Own

• We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Support
  • Doing
  • Something

• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Way
  • Start
  • Luck

• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Want
  • Start

• Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth … They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

  

  Louis de Broglie
  • May
  • Truth

• If it’s real, it is a mental illness and I don’t think we should be celebrating and laughing about it.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Real

• Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.

  

  Erich Schiffmann
  • Moments
  • Participation
  • Negation

• Our free eyes open now on new horizons and can see what yesterday, in our condition as colonial slaves, we could not observe: that 'Western Civilization' disguises behind its showy facade a picture of hyenas and jackals … A carnivorous animal that feeds on unarmed peoples.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Free
  • Eyes
  • Picture

• Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

  

  Jessica Alba
  • Mother

• How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

  

  William Gaddis
  • Real
  • Past
  • Moments