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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Enemy
  • Stupid

• A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
  • Up
  • Painting

• It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Universe

• Yoga powers. To make oneself invisible or small. To become gigantic and reach to the farthest things. To change the course of nature. To place oneself anywhere in space or time. To summon the dead. To exalt senses and perceive inaccessible images, of events on other worlds, in one's deepest inner mind, or in the minds of others.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I am the funniest woman that you've ever known. I am the dullest woman that you've ever known. I'm the most gorgeous woman that you've ever known and you've never met anyone Who is as everything as I am sometimes.

  

  Alanis Morissette

• Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Up
  • Home
  • House

• People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • People
  • Comedy

• The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • May
  • Road

• I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • People
  • Different
  • Fashion

• They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • Know
  • Temple

• Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Problems

• To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Free
  • Action

• 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
  • Action
  • Infinite