Edward Bennett Williams Quotes

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

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• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • You
  • Charity
  • Improve

• The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Alone
  • Government
  • Progress

• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Said

• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Africa

• My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Mom

• If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Good
  • Men
  • Relationship

• A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Mind
  • Mouth
  • Flow

• Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Day

• Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Broken
  • Speaking
  • One Thing

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Beautiful
  • Hair
  • Graves

• Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Different
  • Today
  • Discipline

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • See
  • I See

• It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• It is better to be likable than to be talented.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Better
  • Talented
  • Likable

• The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to seaIn a beautiful pea green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of money,Wrapped up in a five pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,And sang to a small guitar,'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are,You are,You are!What a beautiful Pussy you are!'

  

  Edward Lear
  • Up
  • Money
  • Beautiful

• If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Mother
  • Childhood
  • Hell

• I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Why
  • Running
  • Crazy

• For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.'

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Family
  • Bad
  • True

• In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

  

  Edward Bennett Williams
  • Life
  • Effort