William H. Gass Quotes

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

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• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Society

• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Work
  • Change

• So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Work
  • Wall
  • Need

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pressure

• I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Live
  • Decision
  • Religious

• I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Problem
  • Professional

• I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Jazz

• On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Lost
  • Party

• Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • You
  • Find
  • Look

• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Comfort Zone

• The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Society
  • Satisfied
  • Top

• Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Stop

• I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Like
  • Hero
  • See

• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • History
  • Science

• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Period

• But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Hate
  • Crazy
  • Gucci

• Writing music is just like writing a book.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Book

• I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Writing
  • Hate