William Golding Quotes

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• The world is always terrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Always
  • Terrible

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Power
  • Smart
  • Influence

• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Business
  • History
  • Design

• I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Think
  • Powerful
  • Woman

• At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Day

• Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • Way
  • Nothing

• It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Art
  • Light

• It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Different
  • Character
  • High

• Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Hope
  • Player
  • Baseball

• If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Ifs
  • Limitation
  • Compulsion

• Well, we'll know better next time.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Wells

• In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Time
  • Money
  • Job

• If your dream sounds like a real stretch and everyone around you is looking at you like you have completely lost it, it might just be exactly what you need.

  

  Lauren Gibbs
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Lost

• O fair, false city, thou gay and gilded harlot! Wo for thy wanton heart, wo for thy wicked hardness!Wo unto thee, that the lightsomeness of life, beneath Italian suns, Should meet the solemnity of death, in a sepulchre so foul and fearful!

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Death

• He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

  

  William Golding
  • Lost
  • Vague
  • Mazes