William Faulkner Quotes

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

William Faulkner

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• The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Change
  • Sun

• I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Science
  • Short

• I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Pleasure
  • Nonfiction
  • Exclusively

• I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Man
  • Trump

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Effort
  • Improve

• Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Day

• It was time to be honest with myself. To survive all the shame this world will throw at you, you have to hold yourself tall, look your accuser straight in the eye. Even if it’s your own face looking back at you.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Time
  • World

• These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain, Like slaves on a ship talking about who's got the flyest chain

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Death
  • Pain
  • Champagne

• Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Great
  • Men

• We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Work
  • Art

• Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.

  

  Mary Beard

• I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • People

• Porter Square Books was the only place I could find that was dog-friendly, work-friendly, and had food. I was there all the time.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Time
  • Work
  • Food

• It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • People
  • Luck

• Playing on Saturdays, seeing 75,000 people yell your name, 88, ASJ, and all of that stuff is great.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • People
  • Great

• I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Life
  • Work
  • Comedy

• Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sunAll torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bikeAnd I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bellAnd the last thing I see is my heart,Still beating,Breaking out of my bodyAnd flying awayLike a bat out of Hell.

  

  Jim Steinman
  • Heart
  • Dying
  • Flying

• One must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not possible, however, to train oneself without guidance from the spiritual master.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Spiritual
  • Service
  • Personality

• I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Long

• Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Long
  • Mean
  • Inspired

• When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.

  

  David Atwood
  • Children
  • Death
  • Violence

• And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Long
  • Waiting