William Saroyan Quotes

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

William Saroyan

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• I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Cool

• We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Going
  • Go

• I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Always
  • Goals
  • Put

• In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Dedication
  • Soviet

• The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • First
  • Learned
  • Theme

• Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Effort

• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Artist

• There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Good
  • Wise

• I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Why
  • Body

• One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Real
  • Art
  • Free

• Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • True
  • Football
  • Boys

• There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Peace
  • Universe

• The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?

  

  Zendaya
  • Know
  • Try
  • Greatest

• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • America
  • Military
  • Latin

• I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Dad
  • Born
  • Grass

• Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Think
  • Talk

• I think was able to do a lot of things here.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Think
  • Things
  • Here

• I've been married a couple of times and survived!

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Couple
  • Married
  • Been

• When I meet the right girl I'll definitely have no hesitations to a relationship.

  

  Lee DeWyze
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Characters
  • Useful
  • Blockheads

• If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Like

• Yeah, I'm a giver. I've learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Since I came from another part of the world, I expected many differences in the way things worked, but at the end of the day, there actually were more similarities between the American and Indian entertainment industry: the same chaos, creativity, passion, and genius all around.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • World
  • American
  • Passion

• In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

  

  William Saroyan
  • World
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