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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• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Girl
  • Day
  • Child

• I think punditry serves no purpose.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Purpose
  • I Think

• We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Live
  • Law

• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Different
  • Chance

• 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

• I received free health care.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Free
  • Health
  • Care

• 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

• I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Words

• We like to get money. Whoever wants to work with us and make some money, let's do it.

  

  Offset Migos
  • Work
  • Money

• The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Money
  • Names
  • Ridiculous

• Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• 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
  • Money
  • Novel
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