William Goldman Quotes

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Action

• It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Would
  • Put
  • Spiteful

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Party
  • Gossip

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Knows
  • Sister

• In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Child
  • Model
  • Information

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Yourself

• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Done
  • Belief
  • Complaining

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Career
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Athlete

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

  

  T.I.
  • Success
  • Saying
  • Without

• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Sorrow
  • Misery
  • Stream

• I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Attention
  • Student
  • Paid

• When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Men
  • Painting

• I am honored to have been chosen by Gov. Scott to serve Floridians as their lieutenant governor.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera

• What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami in their lifetimes. I think it is on the same level as seeing the pyramids in Giza for many people. But, Miami is slippery: It is a place that is always that distant orgiastic green light while also being a hot, tropical, and very real place.

  

  Jim Drain
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• One of the things that is so striking to me about the South, especially living here now as an adult, is that I see a lot more mixed-race couples than I saw when I was growing up in the 1980s and the 1990s. I feel like living across the color lines has become something that's more expected.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Color

• This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

  

  William Goldman
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