William Shawn Quotes

There are other places, surely, for other people, but for me there is one place, Ann 
Arbor, for there it was I discovered what lifes bright possibilities were.

William Shawn

• People
• Possibility
• Arbors

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Done
  • Me
  • Army

• I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Writing
  • Found

• It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Christian
  • Saying

• Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Cool

• What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Man

• I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Parents
  • Strong

• You want your partner to objectify you.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Want
  • You
  • Partner

• The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Different
  • Knowledge
  • Myself

• I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Writing
  • Hand
  • Doing

• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Paris

• There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Joy
  • Performance

• In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

  

  Gale Norton
  • People
  • Always
  • Effort

• I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Real
  • Education

• When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Light
  • Rest

• Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Music
  • Poetry

• I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

  

  John Irving
  • Up
  • History
  • Father

• Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Mean
  • Myself
  • Always

• I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

  

  Bobby Farrelly Boney M.
  • Different

• Every day is different; you never know what to expect, and you have to be ready to pivot on a dime.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Different

• Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and we've had the benefit of very low gas prices for our customers as a result of that.

  

  Lynn Good
  • Great
  • Real
  • Business

• There are other places, surely, for other people, but for me there is one place, Ann 
Arbor, for there it was I discovered what lifes bright possibilities were.

  

  William Shawn
  • People
  • Possibility
  • Arbors