William Faulkner Quotes

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

William Faulkner

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• One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • You
  • Need

• They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Great
  • You
  • Couple

• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Live
  • Down

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Doubt
  • Lead
  • Hatred

• I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Father
  • Me
  • Popular

• Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.

  

  Victor Oladipo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Future
  • Taken
  • Name

• I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Justice

• One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Painting

• My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Parents
  • London

• Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Present
  • Strange
  • Reaction

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Success
  • Reality
  • Single

• I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Express Myself

• I was very good in school, and my parents really would have really liked me to go to college. Instead, I went on this random journey to go be a professional wrestler.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Yourself
  • Potential
  • Surgeon

• I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Fighting
  • Mental Illness

• People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Observation

• Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Infidelity
  • Hips
  • Merchants

• I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Man
  • Doctor
  • Cyclone