William Faulkner Quotes

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

William Faulkner

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• Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Dancing
  • Last
  • Sponsor

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • Car
  • Drive

• I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Brain
  • Helps

• When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Go
  • Ride

• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
  • Rather

• When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Community
  • Place
  • Library

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Up
  • Strong
  • End

• The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Best

• I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Actor
  • Break
  • Away

• I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Business
  • Want
  • You

• Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Today
  • Culture

• It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Never
  • Old

• Democracy is like a totalitarian.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Like
  • Democracy

• Consider what you would do with some of the many hours and a share of the energy that you now squander on people who contribute little or nothing to your income or happiness or development as a human being.

  

  Nicholas Samstag
  • Energy
  • Human being
  • Income

• At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Friends
  • Guy

• Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

  

  Yael Stone
  • Country
  • History
  • Australia

• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

  

  William Faulkner
  • History
  • Ambition
  • Books