William Maxwell Quotes

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

William Maxwell

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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Period

• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Confidence
  • Vision
  • Creativity

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • End
  • Watch

• I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Help
  • Influence
  • Legal

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Small

• All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Great
  • Together
  • Inspire

• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • May
  • Saying

• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Living
  • Duty

• This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Country
  • Business
  • History

• Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stronger

• My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Fan
  • Become
  • Patriots

• There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Religion

• We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Development
  • Weapons
  • Steps

• I believe in my writing.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • I Believe

• 'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • People
  • World

• When I got a chance, I went back and shared those experiences that were important to me. George Washington High, the campus at San Francisco State, and even back to Emerson Elementary school and Roosevelt Junior High. I was happy to do it, to go back and see if all the same teachers were there.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Important
  • School
  • Happy

• I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

  

  Peter Cooper
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Failing

• I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

  

  Nolan Gould
  • Writing
  • Running
  • Reading

• I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.

  

  Aviv Nevo
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome - and even comforting - than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Children
  • Age
  • Beauty

• Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

  

  William Maxwell
  • Reading
  • Sides
  • Rapture