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
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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 -
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 -
A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo
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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 -
Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
Ben Jonson
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Lyrically, the most important thing for me is, how can I tell a cohesive story?
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides -
A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
Madame de Stael -
I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
Lance Gross -
And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.
Edmund Spenser -
You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.
Ashton Kutcher -
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