William Faulkner Quotes
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.William Faulkner
Quotes to Explore
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
Orison Swett Marden -
When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
Abby Wambach -
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding -
Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
Gary Johnson -
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
Ian McShane -
Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
M. J. Rose
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
Tahl Raz -
Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
Katha Pollitt -
I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
Gary Johnson -
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I'm used to people talking about me.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
Patricia Cornwell
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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
Orson F. Whitney -
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
Kate Christensen -
I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
T. C. Boyle -
Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.
Harriet Harman -
I play. But this is what I think.
Wallace Stevens
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I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.
Jodie Whittaker -
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.
Bill Mauldin -
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
Garry Marshall -
Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.
Nicole Kidman -
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
William Faulkner