William Faulkner Quotes

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

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• Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Texas is a pretty free state.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Pretty
  • Free
  • Texas

• The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Political
  • Opportunity
  • Justice

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Guy
  • House

• Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Support
  • Passion

• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Atmosphere
  • Brains

• I never felt like I had a mother.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Never

• What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Joy
  • Person
  • Behind

• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Without
  • Consequences

• Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Exercise
  • Motherhood
  • Guilt

• Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Cancer
  • Something
  • Almost

• I still have a lot of military contacts, and friends and readers who've served or are serving, and they react really strongly to G.I. Joe. I've lost count of the number who've said, 'Oh, I just loved it as a kid. I had all the figures; it really made me think.'

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Me

• I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Questions
  • Dignity

• Rising incomes and positive demographics will provide opportunities for retail financial services in India.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Positive
  • Financial

• It's funny: Your relationship changes with a song over time. After a year or so, you're a different person, so your songs, you don't connect with them like you did.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Song

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

  

  William Faulkner
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