William Faulkner Quotes
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
Quotes to Explore
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
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Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.
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Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
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I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.
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I never had this idea, 'I wanna be a solo artist.'
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The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
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It's hard for me to believe that the KKK still exists, especially knowing all my ancestors have been through. I feel like the history and meaning of all we have been through has been trashed.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.
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A house without love ain't a home.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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We had a lot of copies out on a table, and all of a sudden we realized that in the photo on the back of the jacket he was holding a cigarette.
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Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.
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Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.
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When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
