William Inge Quotes

It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.

William Inge

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• When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • Alone
  • Myself

• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Flow

• It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Yourself
  • Story
  • Surprise

• My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Dad
  • Two
  • Ever

• And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • War
  • Doing

• I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Love
  • Always

• If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Complain

• Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Business

• Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Morning
  • Chef

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Past
  • Problem
  • Cancer

• Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Produce
  • Extraordinary

• On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Time
  • World
  • Done

• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Writing
  • School
  • Home

• Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Life
  • Great
  • Eating

• If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'm at home or just chilling, I'm in beanies and jeans and sneakers.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.

  

  Ira Glass
  • World
  • Good
  • Character

• I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Choosing

• I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.

  

  Serena Williams
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Tennis

• I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

  

  Josh Ryan Evans
  • People
  • Doll
  • Freaked

• It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.

  

  William Inge
  • People
  • Men
  • Strong