William Walsh Quotes

Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.

William Walsh

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• If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Reading

• Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Interest
  • Oil
  • Mess

• I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Taught

• So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Want
  • Things
  • Leave

• It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Deep

• Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Truth
  • Help

• 'Rachael Ray does to food what Hitler did to Poland.' Attributed to credentialed chef Anthony Bourdain.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food

• The decision of the Supreme court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Decision

• There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

  

  Blake Edwards
  • People

• I really do not have a favorite amongst Trump surrogates. They all look the same to me. They really all sound eerily alike.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Trump

• There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Life
  • Rest

• I'm a take-no-prisoners type of comic, and I'm lucky because my fans get me and never have a problem with the politically incorrect themes of my act. But I am continually amazed by how a certain section of our society seems to be so freakin' sensitive about jokes.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Society

• Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Habit

• I could care less whether the American public knows what I look like.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • American

• At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • People
  • Movie

• I live like a crazy old pack rat.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Live
  • Crazy

• I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Life
  • Parents

• I'm a chilled-out player, if that's the best way to describe me.

  

  Jack Grealish
  • Player
  • Describe
  • Chilled Out

• You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • You
  • Need
  • Follow

• Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Rich

• Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey. So for us, a community is just made up of anybody who accepts the rules of the game, everybody counts, everybody has a role to play, everybody deserves a chance and we all do better when we work together...

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Journey

• Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.

  

  William Walsh
  • Individual
  • Achievement
  • Mysterious