William Goldman Quotes

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Life
  • Up
  • Art

• You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Mistakes

• Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Human
  • Logic
  • Hopeless

• I won't join another band again.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band
  • Again
  • Join

• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Great
  • Day
  • Burden

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Used
  • Remedies
  • Middle Ages

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Done
  • Pretty

• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Good
  • You
  • Conversation

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Look
  • Jump
  • Step

• Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Book
  • Well
  • Memoir

• To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • House
  • Play
  • Film

• I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Together
  • Desire
  • End

• In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• When I go away to do a movie, I bring the blanket I've had since I was a little girl. It helps me sleep. I also always bring my laptop so I can E-mail friends. And I bring my dog, Beauty, wherever I can.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Girl

• You would probably not say that he was sleeping the sleep of the just, unless you meant the just asleep, but it was certainly the sleep of someone who was not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Night
  • Light
  • Sleep

• Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

  

  William Goldman
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Romantic