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Tennessee Williams Quotes

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Tennessee Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983

Topics

Live Fire Window Look House Down

I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

Jeff Bewkes

Journalism Television Up Where Just

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

Tori Amos

Change Child Think You Open I Think

Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crusty little cake trimmings, ends from a brisket, collars from a salmon, scraps. But they're snacks to me, and I eat them right off the cutting board - maybe too much.

Tom Douglas

Cake Me Chef You Too Much Mean

Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.

Rose George

Water Food Child More Human Percent

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.

Rush Limbaugh

Change Liberalism Imposed

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Mike Figgis

Time Me Forward Loss Innocence Say

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

Julia Hartz

Clarity Hindsight Lot

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

Liu Xiaobo

Involved Wars Major Became Ethically

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

Brett Ratner

Day People Reality End Laugh Movies

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

Boris Pasternak

Community Me Honor View Meaning

XRP is a digital asset that exists on the XRP ledger, one of the open-source products created by Ripple. XRP is a pivotal component of the Internet of Value, since it solves a key point of friction: the pre-funding of nostro/vostro accounts necessary to facilitate cross border payments.

Brad Garlinghouse

Value Border Key Internet Ripple

Brittle masculinity, in the right setting, becomes political atrocity. Strength brings problems; weakness brings others, but weakness posing as strength is the most dangerous of all.

Timothy D. Snyder

Strength Problems Political Posing