Tennessee Williams Quotes

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Tennessee Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

John Cleese

SmallThinkAmericaYouGoTry

Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

TruthLightManFlameLongLiberty

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.

Andy Serkis

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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Jeanette Winterson

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Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.

Steve Wynn

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Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.

Robin DiAngelo

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I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He's probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can't say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.

Ron White

BestListeningComedyYouSayMore

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Ronald Reagan

DepressionMoneyJobYouLoseYours

I was the first person in my family who was ever interested in dance, or fine art of any kind for that matter - I came from a very humble beginning in San Pedro, California.

Misty Copeland

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I love 'SmackDown.'

Luke Harper

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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage.

Lou Holtz

HomeSportsFootballSpringWeek

So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.

Judith Tarr

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