William Faulkner Quotes
People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.William Faulkner
Quotes to Explore
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. Travers -
Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
Brown Campbell -
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Ted Turner -
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
Sampha -
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
W. H. Davies -
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
Orson Pratt
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
Jack Reed -
I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
Olga Kurylenko -
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle -
It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.
Sam Kean -
I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
Hannah Murray -
The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
Hal David
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A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo -
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
Naoto Kan -
The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
Major Owens -
The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
Karl Shapiro -
We gon' be around for a long time.
Quavo Migos -
Opposites and contradictions, that is our harmony.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
Ben Jonson -
My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
Carlos Slim -
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound.
Basil Bunting -
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
John Templeton -
People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.
William Faulkner