William Golding Quotes

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

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• What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • True
  • Think

• As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Kids
  • Bridge
  • Transition

• The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Love
  • Fall

• Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Hate
  • Water

• Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Eyes
  • Moon
  • Fierce

• There’s only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Life
  • Die

• The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • True
  • Faith
  • Church

• For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • World

• What makes [cyber security] difficult is because it's not just a government problem. It is a private sector and government problem. And there's gotta be a lot more cooperation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Government
  • Problem
  • Cooperation

• People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Art
  • Approach
  • Genre

• In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • America

• Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

  

  Eleanor Porter
  • Things
  • Plate

• The most important thing is that, when you work with somebody, you build a rapport with that person. They have a certain trust in you. You don't have to explain that much. It's very hard when you photograph someone who's a fresh face and then you don't work with them again for six months. All these people I work with over and over again have qualities that I love. There's something very free about them or there are some slight imperfections about them. I think the more you work with someone, the pictures get better and better.

  

  Craig McDean
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• First, there was darkness, then came the Strangers.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Darkness
  • Strangers

• Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Family
  • Community
  • Relationship

• My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

  

  will.i.am
  • Mom
  • Married
  • Kissing

• A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Whether
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• I have a diverse audience, which is great, because I like doing things that are a bit more obscure, and I love doing things that are very popular as well. Each has its own bit of joy. So I try to mix it up.

  

  Kate Beaton
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• For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

  

  William Golding
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