William P. Young Quotes

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

William P. Young

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Different
  • True

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Time
  • Day
  • Politics

• When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.

  

  Kaskade
  • Life
  • Good
  • Guy

• I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Aesthetic
  • Classic
  • Edge

• When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fun

• You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • May
  • Lose
  • Loss

• A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Knew
  • Clown
  • Giant

• I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Dying

• The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

  

  Vanity
  • Pain

• I gathered that the old fellow suffers from some advanced form of senile dementia, and so perhaps his analysis is not totally accurate.

  

  Jack Vance

• When I opened Chanel in London, they were happy. People would go, 'Oh, I just came in to see it. It's so beautiful.' And you leave with a positive attitude toward the brand. Now, you don't really get that online. You don't go, like, 'Wow.'

  

  Peter Marino
  • People
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Car
  • Doctor
  • Mechanic

• Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American

• When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Political
  • Interest
  • Subjects

• The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Nazis for very specific reasons. They saw in the Jews the ultimate enemy, who was behind all the other enemies they had. And the Jews were in their eyes Satan; coming from a Christian background, although anti-Christian, if somebody was Satan you knew what to do with him. Murder him. Kill him. Annihilate him. Ultimately. Perhaps drive him out first. And then finally when this didn't work kill him. And it wasn't really directed against the Jews of country X but against the concept of the Jew. The Jew. Anywhere. Everywhere. At all times. Forever. And that is unique. That has never happened before but it can happen again. The idea of some powerful force that unless it is totally annihilated there's no chance for your survival. That was the Nazi ideology.

  

  Yehuda Bauer
  • Enemy
  • Holocaust
  • Jews

• The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

  

  William P. Young
  • Enemy
  • Controversy
  • Obscurity