William Saroyan Quotes

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

William Saroyan

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• When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • History
  • Science

• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Project

• I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • Obnoxious
  • Visionary

• Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• I never lie to my fans.

  

  Becky G
  • Never
  • Fans
  • Lie

• Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • You
  • Better

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Time
  • You
  • First

• Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Home
  • She

• Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Characters
  • Fiction
  • Jack

• I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Wanted
  • Just

• I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Distance

• We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.

  

  Randy Pausch

• Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

  

  Irvine Welsh

• There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Intelligent

• Of course I watch 'Life with La Toya' on OWN.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Life

• Not an unconscious state Or mental chloroform without wilful return,Samadhi but extends my realm of consciousnessBeyond the limits of my mortal frameTo the boundaries of eternity,Where I, the Cosmic Sea,Watch the little ego floating in Me.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Sea
  • Ego

• I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Star

• A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Kids
  • Words
  • Education

• I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

  

  William Saroyan
  • Words
  • Inspiration
  • Famous