William Kennedy Quotes

There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

William Kennedy

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• There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Great
  • Trying

• On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Acting
  • Clothes
  • Lipstick

• I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.

  

  Mako
  • School
  • America
  • Weird

• Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

  

  Edward Young

• For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Help
  • Lawyer

• I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Dad
  • Daughter
  • Grandson

• Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the radical Islamist mullahs ruling Iran share many similarities, but honesty and negotiating in good faith are not among them.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Honesty

• If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, don't read the comments, just don't, because it will make you hate all humans.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Technology

• I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • People
  • Live
  • School

• Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.

  

  Anwar Robinson

• Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

  

  Leon Uris
  • People
  • Writing
  • Relationships

• I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a new artist is so exciting to me. Being only 25 and in a position where I might be able to grant opportunities is really cool.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Good
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Giving
  • Entourage
  • Mules

• The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • War

• I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Republican
  • Compliment

• The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.

  

  Kamahl
  • Water
  • Air
  • Fly

• No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
  • Life
  • She
  • Bad

• One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Like
  • Army
  • Gun

• You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

  

  Al Pacino
  • World
  • God
  • Desire

• There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

  

  William Kennedy
  • Walks
  • Hoot
  • Hallelujah