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World Quotes by Tennessee Williams
- The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't…
- I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost…
- Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in…
- At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
- There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on…
- Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and…
- For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
- Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
- Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of…
- It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of…
- For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork.…
- Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
- The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
- He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All…
- And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any…
- I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- 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
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach