William Faulkner Quotes

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

William Faulkner

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• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Man
  • Intelligent
  • Down

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Bed
  • Obsession
  • Ship

• Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Political
  • Abuse
  • Medical

• If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Mom
  • Hell
  • Pay

• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Cool

• I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Music
  • Women
  • Dress

• I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.

  

  La India
  • American
  • Listen
  • Jazz

• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Birth

• Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Real
  • America
  • Enemy

• As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Family
  • College
  • Husband

• It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Television

• Everyone has Good and Bad Times. Find your creative/thinking time. Defend it ruthlessly, spend it alone, maybe at home. Find your dead time. Schedule meetings, phone calls, and mundane stuff during it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,Lead Thou me on!The night is dark, and I am far from home-Lead Thou me on!Keep Thou my feet: I do not ask to seeThe distant scene,-one step enough for me.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Home
  • Night
  • Light

• Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • Home
  • Loneliness

• The point of the future is that anything can happen.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Future
  • Point
  • Happen

• I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Home
  • Rain
  • Roof