William Goldman Quotes

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

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• I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • History
  • Think
  • Change

• We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Work
  • God
  • Children

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • Today
  • Stand
  • Left

• I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Like
  • Pieces
  • Sell

• Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Day
  • Amazing

• The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Truth
  • Study
  • Introduction

• The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Know
  • Cancer
  • Need

• My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • First
  • Terrible

• I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Parents

• It's difficult when you want it all.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Want
  • You
  • Difficult

• A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • May
  • Man
  • Tomorrow

• I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Me
  • Laugh
  • Jokes

• I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Life
  • Violence

• I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Feel
  • Opportunities

• I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Play
  • Would
  • Hamlet

• I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Find
  • Happen
  • Wait

• All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly the same, while every day new and different florists' species arise from the true species so-called by Botanists, and when they have arisen they finally revert to the original forms. Accordingly to the former have been assigned by Nature fixed limits, beyond which they cannot go: while the latter display without end the infinite sport of Nature.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Different
  • Science
  • Sports

• Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.

  

  Elizabeth Towne
  • Man
  • Experiences
  • Attraction

• There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Office
  • Measure
  • FBI Director

• Through painting I try to get closer to nothingness, to the void.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Void
  • Nothingness

• There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • House
  • Three

• Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

  

  William Goldman
  • Shows
  • Three
  • Broadway