William Faulkner Quotes

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

William Faulkner

• Bad
• Hell
• I Don't Care

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• I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Now

• Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Plate

• For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Like
  • Everyday
  • Options

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • End
  • Cutting
  • Build

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Work
  • House
  • Never

• All of us grow.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Grow
  • U.S.

• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • True
  • Nature
  • Death

• You've always got to have the right blend of colour. You'd be silly to match a yellow t-shirt with a light green pair of trousers, you know? You can wear different colours at the same time, and as long as they blend with each other then it works. That's what I like.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Dark

• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Family

• He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Opinion
  • Will
  • Against

• Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Right
  • Wicket

• Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Him
  • Started
  • Once

• In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Body
  • Fire
  • Blood

• I think it is important for me to speak out on social issues. Sometimes people will agree with me. Sometimes people will disagree with me. I don't take that personally.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • Important

• 'Moldova: Yes or No?' That's a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say 'Yes, you're in Moldova.' I'm so excited. People need that. That's the whole point. The whole reason you buy a $500 phone is to see if you are... in Moldova. Or not.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • People
  • Great

• I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • Work

• It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing.

  

  Umberto Boccioni
  • Dance
  • Red
  • Green

• I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Perception

• I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Bad
  • Hell
  • I Don't Care