William Faulkner Quotes
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.William Faulkner
Quotes to Explore
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I listen to 'deep dish house'.
T. J. Miller -
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
Barbra Streisand -
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
Gary Hamel -
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
Ted Chiang -
I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
Flume
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
Ted Dexter -
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
Daniel De Leon -
The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
Major Owens -
The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
Zaha Hadid -
When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
Paddy Considine
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I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
Ralph Fiennes -
...faced with a choice between an agreement that is to the advantage of the peoples of Europe and one that bolsters their own power within the EU institutions at the expense of Europe’s social economies, the Brussels establishment, and the powerful politicians behind them, will choose the latter every time.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Ev was a careful man, a model of caution. He took pride in not committing to a view until all the facts were in. Which meant, of course, that he was never quite on board. Or in opposition.
Jack McDevitt -
I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit.
Chris Wooding -
The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.
Poppy Delevingne
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Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
Maggie Kuhn -
When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
M. Stanton Evans -
There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
Walid Jumblatt -
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.
Kimberly Caldwell -
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
William Faulkner