Quotes of William Gaddis

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There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

- William Gaddis

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“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ”

- John Bytheway

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. ”

- Jack Thorne

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. ”

- A. J. McLean

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Everyday of your life is a another lesson. If you learn the lesson well and apply it; whether positive or negative, you determine what happens in your tomorrow. ”

- David Kofi Awusi

“ Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. ”

- Arthur Rubenstein

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere. ”

- Hani Selim

“ Art is in the act, not the product. Products simply provide a means to continue the process, a loan of sorts from the buyer. Now the Art is in the hands of the buyer who transforms a simple act as a gift of time to the artist. I for one can not say which is more beautiful. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. ”

- Nicholas Sparks

“ We will either find a way, or make one. ”

- Hannibal