William Faulkner Quotes

Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

William Faulkner

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• I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Creative

• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Child

• I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Like

• I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Acting

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Management

• If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

  

  Rajneesh
  • You
  • Decision
  • Choose

• Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Always
  • Garden
  • Toilet

• When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Choice

• My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • My Life

• Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Glory
  • Journalism
  • Surely

• 'MMMbop' ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the positive relationships you'll have the in the face of challenge and strife.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Trying
  • Challenge
  • Positive

• Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • End
  • India

• Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There is a scale of virtues, and it is necessary, if one would mount the higher steps, to begin with the lowest; and the first virtue a man must acquire if he wishes to acquire the others, is that which the ancients called ἐγκράτεια or σωφροσύνη - i.e., self-control or moderation.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Control
  • Wishes

• The absence of war is not peace.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • War
  • Peace

• The city of Johannesburg built an app because they are getting so many complaints on Facebook and Twitter about potholes. The app allows you to report a pot hole and take a picture of it. Then, you can actually track the progress in terms of the repair, when it happened.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • City
  • Picture
  • Progress

• I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Trying

• I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things, I just didn't think about them. And then I had someone who came in as a tornado, this creative, beautiful ball of insane energy and passion. And it completely opened me up.

  

  Susan Downey
  • Family
  • Home
  • Energy

• Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Passion
  • Purity
  • Tenderness