William T. Vollmann Quotes

I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that's great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn't care less.

William T. Vollmann

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• Painting
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• Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Punishment
  • Execution

• If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Wind
  • Page
  • Facebook

• It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Wishes

• It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Men
  • Mind

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • New
  • Egg

• I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a job - I think that's really helped me feel very grateful to have a job, even when I have a call time of 3:30 A.M. My mom laughs when I text at 4 A.M saying, 'I love my job.'

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Time
  • Job
  • Feel

• I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Charity
  • Selfish
  • Generosity

• I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • First
  • Old
  • Boston

• Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Religion
  • Focused
  • Driven

• Every day of my life, I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Day

• The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Emotional
  • Thought

• You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single 'Time Is Love' gives a lot of advice in that area, just spending quantity time with the one you love and the one you care about because that's when you really develop a relationship.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Single

• I'm a big Ralph Lauren girl, but I love vintage clothing. I like the whole western jeans and boots style. I love vintage T-shirts and flannels, and there's nothing like a great vintage sweatshirt.

  

  Lecy Goranson
  • Great
  • Girl
  • Style

• I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Time
  • Death
  • Bored

• Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's always going to be one of my favorite cities, but it was getting to the point where, after I'd moved to New York, I couldn't write as specifically about Portland any more.

  

  Alafair Burke
  • Moving

• To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain the sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in return for the mystery by which we live. Who is worthy to be present at the constant unfolding of time?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

  

  Maria Sibylla Merian
  • Time
  • Art
  • Nature

• I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that's great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn't care less.

  

  William T. Vollmann
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Painting