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

• 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 was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Lost
  • Teenager

• To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Art
  • Universe

• There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.

  

  Kanye West
  • Culture
  • Numbers
  • Cannes

• There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Moving
  • Sports
  • Able

• Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Up
  • Men
  • Night

• Do you remember what happened the night of March 23?

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Remember
  • Night
  • Happens

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

  

  William Faulkner
  • Night
  • Regrets
  • Wrestle