William Faulkner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
-
I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
-
I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
-
You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
-
I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
-
Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
-
For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
-
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
-
My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
-
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
-
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
-
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
-
We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
-
I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
-
Selecting Budapest would not only be a new city and country for the Olympic Games, but put the region on the map. We want to organise the first Central Eastern Europe Olympics.
-
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
-
To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.
-
The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
-
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Solovyov or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth.
-
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
-
The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
-
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
-
It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.
-
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
