William Faulkner Quotes

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

William Faulkner

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• I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Respect
  • Trash
  • Talker

• Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Up
  • End
  • Where

• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Facts
  • Lead
  • Speculation

• I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • True
  • Wish
  • Social

• Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Ability

• The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life -- service for others.

  

  Edward Bok
  • Life
  • Money
  • Power

• Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Episodes

• Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Use
  • Metaphor
  • Trash

• Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Up
  • Real
  • Girl

• I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

  

  Will Self
  • Ends
  • Trash
  • Weirdo

• It's really easy to be grounded again when you get back home, and you sing in front of 20,000 people a night, and your wife hands you the kids and tells you it's your turn to be on diaper duty and take out the trash. So it's easy to keep things in perspective when things like that happen.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Duty

• Avoid likewise the accumulation of debt.

  

  George Washington
  • Debt
  • Accumulation

• We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • May
  • Freak
  • Gorgeous

• Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Good
  • Pleasure
  • Accumulation

• Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Joyful
  • Accumulation
  • Good Work

• Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Science
  • Development
  • Accumulation

• They give her tractors and things to play with instead of dolls, just to prove that girls are exactly the same as boys. Mind you, they're a bit illogical, it seems to me, because they have never forced me to play with dolls, which I would have thought would have proved the point just as effectively.

  

  Celia Fremlin
  • Same
  • Boys
  • Girls

• We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Way
  • Behave
  • Barbie

• Average household credit card debt topped the landmark of $10,000 in 2006, a hundredfold increase over the average consumer debt in the 1960s. One consequence: Much of the material buried in landfills in recent years was bought with those same credit cards, leading to the quintessentially American practice of consumers continuing to pay, sometimes for years, for purchases after they become trash.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Consumers
  • Household
  • Trash

• Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Life
  • World
  • Earth

• The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Life
  • Man
  • Tragedies

• If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.

  

  Paul Rust
  • Life
  • Scripts
  • Sentences

• All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Trash
  • Accumulation
  • Dolls