William Maxwell Quotes

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

William Maxwell

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• Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Home
  • Career
  • Education

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Faith
  • Kind
  • Speculation

• And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Start

• This little bathtub smells like ass.24.

  

  Ze Frank

• 'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Help

• The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Time

• Obviously, I'm at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I'm 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you're a prospect. And that's what I am right now in Europe. I'm a prospect. I'm not a seasoned veteran.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • Country
  • Career
  • Beginning

• The life of a model is so varied that I never know what will be happening from one week to the next.

  

  Amber Le Bon
  • Life
  • Model

• Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar right next to my left ear? That's where the pitcher hit me the very first time I came to bat as a pro. I was out cold for about 10 minutes.

  

  Billy Herman
  • Time
  • Baseball
  • Cold

• I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.

  

  Pete Docter
  • Time
  • Why
  • Small

• This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

  

  Jean Froissart
  • Home
  • Law

• I think people perceive me completely differently than how I perceive myself. I see myself as a sweet, cosy, motherly type. We all want people to be more glamorous and daring and adventurous than they actually are.

  

  Jade Jagger
  • People
  • Sweet

• For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Art
  • Perfect
  • Trust

• I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.

  

  John McAfee

• I barely speak English.

  

  Eric Ripert
  • English

• All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Memories

• What storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Secret
  • Storytelling
  • Storyteller

• Sometimes I get a little confused because with dancing I can express my emotions with my body. With acting you have to do it with your face and your expressions, and then with animated shows you have to use your voice and use your inflections. So it's definitely a challenge to transfer from each genre of entertainment.

  

  Alyson Stoner
  • Challenge
  • Confused

• There are so many ways of classifying our tendencies, but I think one of the most telling must be this: there are those of us who do not wrestle very often or for very long with our appetites, who can simply say, Enough, and walk away, and those of us who are constantly at odds with how much we desire and what we actually allow ourselves. The gay between desire and restraint: here rages the river of discontent, one that often threatens to overflow its banks.

  

  Christine Sneed
  • Desire
  • Ways
  • Restraint

• What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

  

  William Maxwell
  • Memories
  • Form
  • Storytelling