Tag: William Faulkner

Whiskey Quotes

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. – W. C. Fields

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy. – Nguyen Cao Ky

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office. – Molly Ivins

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. – Daisy Ashford

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? – W. C. Fields

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this – that ain’t my title. – Layne Staley

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P. J. O’Rourke

I can’t drink whiskey like I used to back then, that’s for sure. – Sebastian Bach

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco. – Babe Ruth

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. – Robert E. Lee

I used to like whiskey. But it’s been a long time since I’ve been drunk. – Claude Williams

I’m a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four. – Joel Rosenberg

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. – Lord Dunsany

Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I’ll probably waste. – Tug McGraw

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. – William Faulkner

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games. – Casey Stengel

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment. – Buffalo Bill

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place. – Charles Kelley

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it. – Gary Allan

Work Quotes

Posted on January 11, 2011January 11, 2011 by

– “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller

– “Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.” – Al Capp

– “As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.” – Irvin S. Cobb

– “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert

– “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle

– “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

– “Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

– “Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” – J. Paul Getty

– “Great ideas originate in the muscles.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing

– “I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” – Richard Nelson Bolles

– “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” – Pablo Picasso

– “It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” – William Faulkner

– “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank

– “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” – Horace

Art Quotes

Posted on January 7, 2011January 8, 2011 by

– “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

– “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

– “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso

– “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp

– “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, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” – William Faulkner

– “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

– “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler

– “Painting is silent poetry.” – Plutarch

– “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci

– “It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.” – Kojiro Tomita

– “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell

– “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” – Schumann

– “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” – Pablo Picasso

– “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” – Henri Matisse

– “The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.” – Robert Brault

– “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley

– “Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer

– “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

– “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser

– “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand

– “All art requires courage.” – Anne Tucker

– “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde

– “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas

– “It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” – Henry Moore

– “Pictures must not be too picturesque.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – André Gide

– “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” – Wynetka Ann Reynolds

– “But that’s what being an artist is – feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.” – The New Yorker

Doing Your Best Quotes

Posted on December 2, 2010 by

# Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.–William James

# Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.–William Faulkner

# Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.–Benjamin Franklin

# Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your won. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.–Christian D. Larsen (Creed for Optimists)

# Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.–Phillips Brooks

# Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you… Successful people don’t simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.–Win Borden

# Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.–Lowell Thomas

# Do more than you’re supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.–Bill Sands

# Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.–Sandra Day O’Conner

# Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.–Theodore Roosevelt

# Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.–Horotio W. Dresser

# Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.–Oprah Winfrey

# Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect thet best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.–Ralph Marston (The Daily Motivator)

# Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.–John Wooden

# Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.–Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar’s Little Book of Big Quotes)

# Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else–and usually it’s reading his own handwriting.–G. Norman Collie

# Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!–Anne Frank

# Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.–Viktor Frankl

William Faulkner Quotes

Posted on November 10, 2010November 10, 2010 by

I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

I’m inclined to think that a military background wouldn’t hurt anyone.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it… the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books… Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

Pointless… like giving caviar to an elephant.

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, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it’s the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

Being Afraid Quotes

Posted on October 29, 2010 by

I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. – Eddie Rickenbacker

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. – Anonymous

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. – Mark Twain

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. – Lao Tzu

Always do what you are afraid to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid. – William Faulkner

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true… or being afraid it is. – Terry Goodkind

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller

Famous Equality Quotes

Posted on October 11, 2010October 9, 2010 by

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” – Aristotle

“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions. It only guarantees equality of opportunity.” – Irving Kristol

“As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.” – Steven Pinker

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.” – Albert Einstein

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.” – Malcolm X

“The sole equality on earth is death.” – Philip James Bailey

“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.” – William Faulkner

“Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.”- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.