William Styron Quotes
In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind - a struggle which had engaged me for several months - might have a fatal outcome.
Quotes to Explore
-
The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
-
One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
-
At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
-
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
-
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
-
What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
-
I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
-
When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
-
There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
-
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
-
It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
-
Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
-
In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
-
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
-
I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
-
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
-
I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
-
Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior!
-
Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
-
Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.
-
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
-
Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.
-
In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind - a struggle which had engaged me for several months - might have a fatal outcome.
