William T. Vollmann quote: "I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied."

As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention ...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a go...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was ...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differ...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit worl...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful ...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mum...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps m...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism ar...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to ...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

In the preface of "The Rifles"
"Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any h...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

Although my work leads me to spend time with Nazi skinheads, diseased street prostitutes and homeles...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

The first chance I had to go to Japan, which was in the early nineties, I went to a Noh play. I thou...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. '...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; m...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell.
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to lea...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each o...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. I...
WILLIAM T. WALSH

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.
WILLIAM T. DAVIS

There are no atheists in foxholes.
WILLIAM T. CUMMINGS

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the p...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who c...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impair...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost ...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what ...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As the ...
WILLIAM T. HAM

Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangeli...
WILLIAM T. HAM

Maundy Thursday There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not o...
WILLIAM T. HAM

The Christian Church does not want and does not need members because of a job it has to do. The Chri...
WILLIAM T HAM

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspel...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans q...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell.
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.
T. WILLIAM WATTS

Yes, impossible. But do not dread, impossibility is just another measure of difficulty. The skills o...
T. WILLIAM WATTS

Dreams are pathways for the heart.
- Reminim the gnome
T. WILLIAM WATTS

I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.
T-PAIN

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.
T-PAIN

Most geniuses are weird.
T-PAIN

I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ...
T-PAIN

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or w...
T-PAIN

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big r...
T-PAIN

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go giv...
T-PAIN

I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
T-PAIN

I just keep my cars to myself.
T-PAIN

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same ti...
T-PAIN

Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
T-PAIN

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t...
T-PAIN

The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
T-PAIN

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
T-PAIN

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
T-PAIN

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
T-PAIN

I've got to be sensible sometimes.
T-PAIN

I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.
MR. T

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is...
ICE T

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h...
ICE T

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
ICE T

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
ICE T

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot...
ICE T

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too ma...
ICE T

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
ICE T

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the ...
ICE T

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say...
ICE T

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to yo...
ICE T

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to fi...
ICE T

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
ICE T

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
ICE T

I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,&...
ICE T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders...
ICE T

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be consider...
ICE T

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the ...
ICE T

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in th...
MR. T

I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the...
T-PAIN

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. Th...
T-PAIN

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
T-PAIN

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don...
T-PAIN

There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, beca...
T-PAIN

I write my music.
T-PAIN

People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
T-PAIN

I'm pretty much in love with 'Adult Swim.'
T-PAIN

I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
T-PAIN

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to...
T-PAIN

I do YouTube my cars a lot.
T-PAIN

My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, s...
T-PAIN

I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.
T-PAIN

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to s...
T-PAIN

Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
T-PAIN

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was...
T-PAIN

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
T-PAIN

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.
T-PAIN

You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, ...
T-PAIN

Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that befo...
T-PAIN

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who p...
T-PAIN

'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
T-PAIN

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.
MR. T

The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, takes the ...
JAY T

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
ICE T

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or...
MR. T

My mood board says that there should be a G.O.O.D. Music festival. Why not? Like, we haven't - I...
PUSHA T

Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you kn...
ICE T

I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
T-PAIN

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!
MR. T

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you w...
ICE T

I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.
MR. T

Diet food is for lazy people.
ICE-T

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pr...
MR. T

A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of ...
PUSHA T

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the peop...
MR. T

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.
MR. T

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
ICE T

You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T...
MR. T

I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I...
ICE T

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jac...
ICE T

I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we al...
ICE T

It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.
ICE T.

Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.
PUSHA T

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
ICE T

My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality musi...
PUSHA T

I feel like my lyrics are just dark and scathing. I feel like the lyrics on 'Darkest Before Dawn...
PUSHA T

Gravity is my best friend. Gravity keeps me and my family together.
LEANNE T.

When you make albums like I do, and it's based off fanfare and based off touring - I make these ...
PUSHA T

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps...
ICE T

I don't even know how to think about running out of things to talk about. Certain things are ine...
PUSHA T

I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a ta...
PUSHA T

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,...
MR. T

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
ICE T

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
ICE T

Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.
MR. T

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion...
ICE T

I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from ...
AZRA T.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone...
MR. T

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the rad...
ICE T

He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerfu...
T. MOUNTEBANK

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - rea...
MR. T

I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ...
PUSHA T

Time never changes things..It only give us the space to change it.
RAMANATHAN T

Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.
ICE-T

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm st...
ICE T

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
MR. T

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's...
MR. T

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear w...
ICE T

Love is always the reason to go on with life. Love is the answer to all the problems.
SAKTHIVEL T

I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,'...
ICE T

You can think about killing yourself a thousand times a day and each time it gets just a little bit ...
T DOGMAN

The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!
T. GILLING

I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be...
PUSHA T

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading...
MR. T

Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T...
T. REAL

I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me...
T. MOUNTEBANK

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends c...
ICE T

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops...
ICE T

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ...
ICE T

That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it w...
ICE-T

Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fightin...
ICE-T

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
ICE-T

We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.

Piper
T. GREENWOOD

I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things...
MR. T

I never understood why movies don't have to be as responsible, or the responsibility stops with ...
PUSHA T

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth...
MR. T

I think adidas really understands that it's cool to be in business with the right people. It rea...
PUSHA T

Goblin tea resembles a nice cup of Earl Grey in much the same way that a catfish resembles the commo...
T. KINGFISHER

Most of us will die twice; Once when we take our last breath, and again when the world forgets your ...
T. ARCHMAN

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want i...
ICE T

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
ICE T

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
ICE T

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to...
T. D. JAKES

Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her g...
BRANDON T. JACKSON

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we...
YUAN T. LEE

Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is es...
YUAN T. LEE

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab in...
YUAN T. LEE

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good examp...
YUAN T. LEE

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing f...
YUAN T. LEE

The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great an...
T. B. JOSHUA

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
JOHN T. FLYNN

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was ha...
T. V. CARPIO

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
T. V. CARPIO

We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife,...
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

I don't calculate my net worth.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

Be as transparent as you can in your trade. The big thing in life is trust.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles....
T. R. KNIGHT

David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how fun...
T. R. KNIGHT

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it...
T. R. KNIGHT

In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
T. R. KNIGHT

The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are...
T. R. KNIGHT

I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessar...
T. R. KNIGHT

We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6...
T. J. THYNE

I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on 'Entourage'...
T. J. THYNE

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, whi...
T. J. THYNE

Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune ...
T. J. THYNE

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.

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I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.

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