William Faulkner Quotes
The poets are wrong of course. But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.William Faulkner
Quotes to Explore
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
Adam Draper -
Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
Usher -
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
Abraham Verghese -
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
Umberto Eco -
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
Irvine Welsh -
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
Bear Grylls
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
Dana Brunetti -
You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
Madeleine Stowe -
Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?
Alexander the Great -
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
Jeanette Winterson -
I'm very simple when it comes to gifts, so the best ones that I've received have love as their main intention. I appreciate everything.
Adriana Lima
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Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
Jerry Saltz -
You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.
Chris Stapleton -
I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.
Jennifer Westfeldt -
I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.
Peggy Whitson -
You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
Max McKeown -
Becoming pregnant can be difficult at the best of times.
Penny Junor
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While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.
Eliot Spitzer -
People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.
Fred Funk -
What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me 'dust to dust.'
Thomas Hood -
By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
Cameron Mackintosh -
The poets are wrong of course. But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
William Faulkner