William Faulkner Quotes

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

William Faulkner

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• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • You
  • Value
  • Painting

• Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Age
  • Space
  • Start

• I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Life
  • School
  • Kid

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • You
  • Thought

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Describe

• I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Together
  • Desire
  • End

• My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • American
  • Dad
  • Mom

• My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Art

• Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Culture

• The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Society

• Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• This is the only thing I know.

  

  Eminem
  • Know
  • Thing

• In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • People
  • Community

• An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Men
  • May

• I really learned it all from mothers.

  

  Benjamin Spock

• They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • King

• I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Die

• It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Good

• As a true-blue Punjabi, I have learnt to tackle disappointments, especially since I have no godfather in the industry.

  

  Arfi Lamba
  • True
  • Blue
  • Godfather

• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to drive me there at night and pick me up when it closed. I think he was worried about this routine but never let on. Also, I kept this a secret from my friends, as I don't think it would have been considered the 'coolest' habit.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Father

• Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Night
  • Regrets
  • Wrestle