William Faulkner Quotes

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

William Faulkner

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• Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Same
  • Editing
  • Exactly

• I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Beautiful
  • Enemy
  • Stone

• I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • America
  • True
  • Political

• When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Try

• One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Leader

• I'm not interested in celebrity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Celebrity
  • Not Interested

• I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • School
  • Remember

• The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Art
  • Sadness

• Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a robust mental health programme for children. There is also a lack of accountability in the public system.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Children
  • Health
  • Environment

• The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Joy
  • Reasons
  • Developments

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Good
  • American
  • Dream

• Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Mind
  • Dark
  • Questions

• I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Love
  • Harmony

• The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Inspiration
  • Secret
  • Patience

• The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Day
  • Always
  • Diet

• I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Fame

• When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Song
  • Write
  • Start

• I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

  

  Larry David
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Now

• My spirit has passed in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Spirit
  • Compassion
  • Lovers

• Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Men
  • Women
  • Powerful

• Thomas Edison method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Chance
  • Sorry
  • Miracle

• I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Blind
  • WIld
  • I Feel Like