William Faulkner Quotes

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

William Faulkner

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• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Never
  • Consciousness

• I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Career
  • Me
  • Stop

• The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Driving
  • Gun
  • Season

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Airplane

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Mother

• A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Poetry
  • Place

• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Magic

• What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Tradition
  • Fact

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Long
  • Want
  • CEO

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Summer

• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Been
  • Line

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

  

  Naomi Wolf

• So pretty i had to eat him

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Pretty
  • Eat

• For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

  

  Arthur Sullivan
  • Music
  • May
  • Power

• If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Wisdom
  • Pride
  • Room

• When I signed in Ottawa two years ago, I felt it was to be an integral part of the team. Over the last two years and more recently over the past year, I feel my role was diminished. This past season, it diminished a lot more. “I would like the opportunity to go somewhere where I can play to the best of my capabilities and be the player that I can be.

  

  Dany Heatley
  • Past
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Love
  • Forever
  • Forgotten