William Jay Quotes
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.William Jay
Quotes to Explore
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
Ralph Baer -
Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
Taylor Sheridan -
During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
Eavan Boland -
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
Kate Millett -
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
J. T. Walsh
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America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very young, and I said to Tim, 'I'm sorry, but I don't have enough imagination to pretend this girl is my husband!' And he said, 'Well, I'll read it with you.' Which was very nice; he was the director. And I ended up getting the part.
Barbara Sukowa -
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
T. S. Eliot -
The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.
Jessie Mueller -
Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
Paulo Coelho -
Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.
Leverett Saltonstall
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I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.
Jennifer Ellison -
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
Anthony Holden -
Light is the symbol of truth.
James Russell Lowell -
Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
Elliott Abrams -
Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.
Christopher Lambert -
Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, and why some relationships survive and others do not. There isn't a single marriage that couldn't provide enough narrative arc for a novel.
David Ebershoff
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It was during George W. Bush's presidency that Iran mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, that they built covert facilities, that they stocked them with centrifuges, that they were spinning merrily away toward getting a nuclear-weapons program.
Hillary Clinton -
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
Maya Angelou -
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman -
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
William Jay