William Goldman Quotes

But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have pleased it, so he knew that Buttercup was obliged to spend her love on him. Gold was inviting, and so was royalty, but they could not match the fever in his heart, and sooner or later she would have to catch it. She had less choice than the sun.

William Goldman

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• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • First
  • Show

• The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Free
  • Question
  • Ideas

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Little
  • Got
  • Tomboy

• The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Long
  • Women
  • Struggle

• In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

  

  P. D. James
  • People
  • Today
  • Guilty

• I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Want
  • Tomorrow
  • Possible

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Growing
  • Magic

• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Today
  • Free
  • Choices

• I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Book
  • First
  • Late

• My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Fun
  • Left
  • Field

• What separates us from other camera companies is that the vision guy is the decision maker. That was one of my biggest advantages at Oakley, and it's the same at Red - I'm in the trenches, in the product development, and I make the final call.

  

  James Jannard
  • Guy
  • Decision
  • Vision

• I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Age

• I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.

  

  Becky G
  • Gold
  • Having
  • Regular

• What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Heart
  • May

• Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Heart
  • Alive
  • Organism

• But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have pleased it, so he knew that Buttercup was obliged to spend her love on him. Gold was inviting, and so was royalty, but they could not match the fever in his heart, and sooner or later she would have to catch it. She had less choice than the sun.

  

  William Goldman
  • Heart
  • Morning
  • Choices