William Faulkner Quotes

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

William Faulkner

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• The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

  

  Kate Klise
  • College
  • Surprise
  • Strive

• All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

  

  Jack Warner
  • America
  • Best
  • Week

• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Pretty
  • Actor
  • Grateful

• Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Always
  • Say
  • Will

• I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Mean
  • Feel

• I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • World
  • Love
  • Me

• A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• More than 100 million women have worn my clothing and accessories,, and that's so fulfilling. My skincare line proves you don't have to spend a fortune to have beautiful skin. I've loved acting but if I never played another role and just focused on my business, I'd be happy.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Women
  • Business
  • Happy

• Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choices
  • Made
  • Sum

• When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Feelings
  • Write
  • Books

• Well, I think that you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective. Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something that obviously the country wrestles with.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Question
  • Perspective

• Layton: After all these years of inaction, will the Prime Minister finally get something done and do something the former government would not do and that is to cancel the subsidies to big oil and big ass-I mean big gas and start putting-Stephen Harper: Mr. Speaker, I promise to get to the bottom of it.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Done
  • Promise

• No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.

  

  George Benson
  • Great
  • Song
  • Hand

• Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human Existence
  • Tense
  • Completed

• Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • God

• As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Work

• Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Plans
  • Truth Is God

• Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

  

  William Faulkner
  • God
  • Sport
  • Believed