William Faulkner Quotes

Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.

William Faulkner

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• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Because

• The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Girl
  • Story
  • Mine

• I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
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  • Method

• I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • School
  • Day

• I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Better

• Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Brain

• suggest that we think of theories as spotlight. this imagery is useful. a spotlight will only illuminate so much. wiht any theory there will always be the things that are left in darkness, still unexamined and unexplained. parsons referred to these as'residual categories'.

  

  Talcott Parsons

• In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still;While words of learned length, and thundering soundAmazed the gazing rustics ranged around;And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,That one small head could carry all he knew.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Words
  • Small
  • Wonder

• Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Long
  • Nice

• The Olympics are an event manipulated into misleading people into believing that we have entered a new, successful and harmonious period in our history. This is not true.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • History
  • True

• My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name - someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I decided I should go after the roles I like, that I am inspired by, and then, if I am having a good time, chances are that people will like watching you.

  

  James Marsden
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

  

  James Mattis

• I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

  

  Adrian Belew

• My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

  

  David Puttnam
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

  

  Chuck Jones
  • Funny
  • Door

• What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • May

• My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Good
  • Father
  • Band

• Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Different
  • Song
  • Way

• Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Wise
  • Brave
  • Gash