Tennessee Williams Famous Quotes
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.
"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you."
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
"Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question."
Make voyages - Attempt them - there's nothing else...
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Security is a kind of death.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams Quotations
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Tobias G Smollett
Learn and think imperially.
Joseph Chamberlain
"We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
H L Mencken
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
Socrates
"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without."
Chuangtzu
"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up."
Charles Langbridge Morgan
"He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful."
Dame Rose Macaulay
"I may not be where I want to be, But thank God I'm not where I used to be."
Ainsley Carry
"Miracles You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world..."
Hugh Elliott
"You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you."
Edward Steichen