William Golding Quotes

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

William Golding

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• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Beautiful
  • Unity
  • Essence

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Want
  • Violence
  • Gift

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
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• I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Fit

• You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • California
  • Taxes

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
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  • Kids
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• The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Man
  • Best

• Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Now
  • Immigrants

• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Plans

• Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Why
  • Wonder

• I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

  

  John Burnside
  • Earth

• [About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Failing

• He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

  

  William Golding
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Path