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Something Quotes by William Faulkner
- 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,…
- It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always…
- It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.
- 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…
- There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event…
- Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
- He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
- I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
- It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened…
- When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe…
- Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering,…
- Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my…
- When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would…
- Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and…
- ...surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity..
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen