William T. Vollmann Quotes

Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

William T. Vollmann

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• You think about taking audiences on a journey.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Think
  • You
  • Journey

• The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Book
  • Know
  • Better

• Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • History
  • Famous
  • Weather

• There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • War

• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Husband

• Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.

  

  Rain
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Fans

• My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • School
  • House

• I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Funny

• Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Sometimes
  • Greed
  • Hatred

• The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

  

  Jacob Hacker
  • People
  • Security
  • Stock

• I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Up
  • Day
  • Myself

• Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Feeling
  • Golf
  • Calm

• Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I'm feeling nothing but excitement.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Problem
  • Band
  • Distracting

• I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne

  

  C.E. Murphy
  • God
  • Faith
  • Broken

• In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

  

  Alveda King
  • Life
  • World
  • Together

• I mean another thing I thought was, for example, important about Early One Morning, how long it is and you don't get it all in one.

  

  Anthony Caro
  • Important
  • Long
  • Morning

• The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Human Creature
  • Attendance
  • Leprosy

• To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.

  

  Homer
  • Blessing
  • Divisions
  • Relieve

• Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Try

• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ignore
  • Behinds
  • Storytelling

• We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

  

  Ismail Merchant
  • Judgment
  • Terrible
  • Critics

• Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

  

  William T. Vollmann
  • Train
  • Behinds
  • Coming