William Golding Quotes

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

William Golding

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 19, 1911 - June 19, 1993

Topics

ChildhoodSicknessGrowYouOut

Hate is a problem.

John David Washington

HateProblem

I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

John Williams

YouLookGoKnowComfortableFirst

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Steven Wright

SimpleYouDollarGotJustChain

Writing about food is my default.

Ruth Reichl

FoodWritingAboutDefault

In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.

Molly Bloom

TaxOverMillionReturnsTax Returns

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

Michael Learned

YouBackCareerPersonYoungNever

There was a point when I told my daddy I didn't want to go hunting anymore.

Jason Isbell

GoWantHuntingPointDaddyAnymore

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Dolly Parton

LoveHomeCookingTravelHusband

If there's anything I can't stand, it's the cliche of the female handler who's always talking through the radio with your player, telling you where to go and what to do with a sexy voice. It's such a horrible, horrible cliche. You just get so tired of it. It's like, is this all she's ever going to be?

Chris Avellone

TiredVoiceSexyStandTalkingYou

In the fall of 1961, I went up to Clare College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, with the intention of becoming a biochemist in the end.

Tim Hunt

CollegeEndFallIntentionUpRead

We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.

Maria Semple

BusinessSmallSmall BusinessNeed

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

Lyndon B. Johnson

LosingFaceYouYourWhileSaving

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