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Mean Quotes by William Faulkner
- When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say,…
- Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's…
- The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,…
- People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a…
- By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material…
- The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,…
- In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He…
- No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means…
- The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And…
- I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily…
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams