Quote by William Faulkner Download Open image ““it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse.”” — William Faulkner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.” — Michael Ponsor Copy Share Image
“I am much bigger than the average chicken, and furthermore I was armed with a rolling pin and kitchen knife. As a matter of… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“Just because birds fly over your head, doesn't mean you have to give them a place to build a nest.” — Herbert Kelley Copy Share Image
“It is easier to live in a hut with yourself than to live in a mansion with your enemy.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
“The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image