William Golding Quotes

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

William Golding

• Matter
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• Hands

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• Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
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• The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Study
  • Matter
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• I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

  

  India de Beaufort
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• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

  Jack Lowden
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• You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Matter
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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Peace
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• In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Different
  • Important
  • Day

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Road
  • Matter

• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Different
  • Science
  • Hands

• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Science

• If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • You
  • Matter
  • Follow

• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Respect
  • Discipline
  • Fruit

• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Hands
  • Mystery
  • Intelligence

• I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Country
  • Hands

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Hands
  • Shake
  • Standpoint

• I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

  

  Paul Conrad
  • Ideas
  • Hands
  • Drawing

• Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • Up
  • Future
  • Wish

• To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Reality
  • Contact
  • Transport

• The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Good
  • Character
  • Soul

• While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

  

  William Golding
  • Matter
  • Discipline
  • Hands