William Faulkner Quotes

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

William Faulkner

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• I think punditry serves no purpose.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Purpose
  • I Think

• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

  Aaliyah
  • God
  • Hope
  • Hands

• I see myself as extremely lucky.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Myself
  • See
  • Lucky

• I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Want
  • Wife
  • Car

• David Lynch helped me be cool.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Helped

• I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Country
  • Strong

• What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Place

• When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Energy
  • First
  • Natural

• Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • Control
  • Immigrant

• He didn’t know if he had the right or not. Didn’t know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Red

• Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

  

  John Adams
  • Mind

• Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Suffering

• But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Stupid

• I remember really loving the CoverGirl ads when I was younger - there was something very cool about how they always put the girls in white. It looked so clean.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Remember
  • Cool

• You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • People
  • Movie
  • Sorry

• I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

  

  Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Thoughts

• Everything I've set out to do, I've achieved, and all the praise goes to God.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • God

• Now, not every blog post or 'Top 10 Ways to Make Money on the Internet' piece deserves to live forever. But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Live
  • Money
  • Forever

• I suppose what's so amazing about working at the National Theatre is that, because it's a subsidized theatre, you're not trying to create a product that's going to have a mass market in order to make the money back.

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Amazing

• We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • World
  • Change
  • Moments

• We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

  

  William Faulkner
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