William Golding Quotes

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

William Golding

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

Joan Jett

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I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

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Everyone who has a pair of eyes in this country understands the racial tensions and the issues we have are very serious and they're not going away. Just because we had Barack Obama as our president and, on paper, everything looks equal, it's very clearly not.

Megan Rapinoe

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If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

Andy Rooney

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The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.

Jeff Fisher

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People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.

Mike Pence

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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

Jean de la Bruyere

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I hold myself to a high standard on and off the field.

Jared Goff

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I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

Dennis Farina

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I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

Dennis Ritchie

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I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.

Deborah Kerr

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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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