William Maxwell Quotes

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

William Maxwell

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• Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Great
  • Women
  • Man

• My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Life
  • Child
  • Grandmother

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • History
  • Know

• I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Security

• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • History
  • Doubt
  • Unique

• As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • America
  • Violence
  • Picture

• Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Help
  • Small
  • Law

• I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Years
  • Washington
  • Variety

• I had to do something for the country.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Country
  • Something
  • Had

• I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Time
  • Done
  • Movie

• I put it a still life of a pear, made by Manet there on the wall, next to Ingres' painting 'Jupiter', for a pear like that would overthrow any god.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Life
  • God
  • Painting

• Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• If we want to transform reality, we begin with ourselves. We do not ask the world to change, and we do not fight against society. It has to be us ourselves who affirm our own values.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • World
  • Society
  • Reality

• I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Time
  • Happy

• Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.

  

  Dash Mihok

• The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

  

  Percy Ross
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Wishes

• The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • American

• Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.

  

  Winston Grime
  • Words
  • Kind
  • Easy

• Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a robust mental health programme for children. There is also a lack of accountability in the public system.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Children
  • Health
  • Environment

• No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. This is because now the ultimate reason for attending family gatherings is for your children to have the time of their lives with their cousins. Little kids love their cousins. I’m not being cute or exaggerating here. Cousins are like celebrities for little kids. If little kids had a People magazine, cousins would be on the cover. Cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be. “Are the cousins going to be there? Fun!

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Fun

• My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

  

  William Maxwell
  • Children
  • Daughter
  • Rooms