William Golding Quotes
I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.William Golding
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
Queen Latifah -
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
Otto Schily -
When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
Gail Parent -
Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
Quavo Migos -
I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
Fortune Feimster -
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
Karen Gillan -
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
Sam J. Jones -
I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
Mandy Patinkin -
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
Harry Belafonte -
I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
Vidal Sassoon
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
Cab Calloway -
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
Hank Stram -
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
Eddie Redmayne -
I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
Rachel Weisz -
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
Gary Clark Jr. -
I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
A. J. Foyt
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I hate picking a bone with Paul Ryan; he's a friend of mine, but I think he needs to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Ana Navarro -
The coolest party I've ever D.J.ed would have to be for the artist Damien Hirst. It was an amazing party in Berlin. I had such a great time, and people danced all night long.
Chelsea Leyland -
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
Anurag Kashyap -
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
Mahmoud Abbas -
I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
Aaron Sorkin -
I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.
William Golding