William Godwin Quotes

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

William Godwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 3, 1756 - April 7, 1836

Topics

ManBookDeadVarietyMotionBooks

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

Robert Kardashian

MusicMoviesAudienceOutBigger

Did you ever run behind a slow pack? You get a trailing wind and a lot of body odor.

Steve Prefontaine

WindSlowYouBodyRunGet

The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been praying for for 60 years.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

PeopleThinkingYearsWithoutSoviet

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Toni Morrison

FirstBecauseReadWantedNovel

You have to be really, really careful how you use bitcoin in order to use it privately.

Roger Ver

YouOrderCarefulBitcoinUseHow

I used to goof off a lot.

Luke Rockhold

UsedOffLotGoof

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

Johnny Vegas

MeEggLookLegsLittleGot

When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

Anurag Kashyap

PeoplePushViolenceUncomfortable

My solar energy programme alone will generate about a million jobs.

Piyush Goyal

AloneEnergyWillSolarMillion

You're always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault.

Tim Kennedy

MeYouAlwaysFaultHonestGoing

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Richard Whately

GoodTruthSoulEvilError

Don't do anyone else's version of a hit song - it's gonna sound terrible. You just have to do what you do well and crank it up to 11.

Ricky Reed

SongYouSoundUpWellTerrible

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