William Saroyan Quotes

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

William Saroyan

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• I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Writing
  • Book
  • History

• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Politics
  • Research
  • Peers

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • People
  • Stage
  • Lucky

• A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Book
  • Car
  • Police

• Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Something
  • Script

• This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • Idea
  • Company

• What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Morning

• A comedian is not a man who opens a funny door. He opens a door funny.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Funny
  • Door

• You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

  

  Chris Terrio
  • People
  • Up

• One of my passions in life is to try to inspire people. I don't know if that sounds cheesy, but I genuinely love to do that.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Life
  • Cheesy

• It's incredible to me that any two individual minds, trapped in their skulls and bodies and histories and unique experiences, are able to reach across the void between them and touch at all.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Unique

• I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Faith
  • Challenge
  • Doubt

• There are women who are just extraordinary, who are smart and brilliant, sensual women in their 70s and even 80s!

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Women
  • Smart

• I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school, and that single-sex education really helped me because I really learned to bond with women and to not compete with or compare myself as much because we were all allowed to be ourselves and be unique and kind of have our unique strengths.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Women
  • School
  • Girl

• Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Small
  • Proud
  • Deep

• What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Smart

• What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • King
  • Prison
  • Him

• When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn't stop in the beginning.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Money
  • Stop

• All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Action

• In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

  

  William Saroyan
  • Forever
  • Already