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She has always seemed to me the epitome of womankind: coldly suspicious, politely ill-tempered, and narrowly selfish. — John Edward Williams

The album for Fiddler really took off. I think it was a combination of John Williams and the score. It was a very classy big album. — Norman Jewison

Begone, begone, you bloody whoreson Gauls! — John Williams

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all. — John Williams

He looked at them curiously, as if he had not seen them before, and felt very distant from them and very close to them. — John Edward Williams

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. — John Sharp Williams

A WEEK BEFORE commencement, at which Stoner was to receive his doctorate, Archer Sloane offered him a full-time instructorship at the University. — John Edward Williams

One must be prepared to suffer for one's beliefs. — John Edward Williams

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it? — John Edward Williams

My God, to read without joy is stupid. — John Williams

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job. — John Williams

Deliberately, as if committing himself to something, he stepped forward and walked down the path to the porch and knocked on the front door. — John Edward Williams

He is a man like any other ... he will become what he will become, out of the force of his person and the accident of his fate. — John Williams

So the bed that had been the arena of their passion became the support of her illness. — John Williams

He continued, "I just want to say that your paper was the best discussion I know of the subject, and I'm grateful that you volunteered to give it. — John Williams

No, sir, Stoner said, and the decisiveness of his voice surprised him. He thought with some wonder of the decision he had suddenly made. — John Edward Williams

She turned to him and pulled her lips in what he knew must be a smile. Not at all. I'm having a lovely time. Really. — John Edward Williams

Composing music is hard work. — John Williams

There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march. — John Williams

But we were never really - together. Even when we made love. — John Edward Williams

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time. — John Edward Williams

Busying herself with inconsequential tasks. — John Edward Williams

A writer worth his salt is not going to write about how damned lovely it is; it isn't, that's why so many people tell themselves it is [lovely]. — John A. Williams

To care not for one's self is of little moment, but to care not for those whom one has loved is another matter. — John Edward Williams

The strongest of us are but the puniest weaklings, are but tinkling cymbals and sounding brass, before the eternal mystery. — John Edward Williams

He did his work at the University as he did his work on the farm - thoroughly, conscientiously, with neither pleasure nor distress. — John Edward Williams

John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that. — Andre Previn

Rather awkwardly shy and therefore at times defensive and rather too assertive — John Edward Williams

I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury. — John Deacon

Stoner said to Finch, I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax. — John Edward Williams

Every victory enlarges the magnitude of our possible defeat. — John Edward Williams

The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children. — John Edward Williams

When at last he came to his decision, it seemed to him that he had known all along what it would be. — John Edward Williams

a quotation from the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset as an epigraph for Stoner: "A hero is one who wants to be himself." In — John Williams

I think of myself as a film composer. — John Williams

Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve. — John Edward Williams

Finch turned to the other men and without raising his voice managed to call out to them. — John Edward Williams

Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance. — John Edward Williams

Lust and learning," Katherine once said. "That's really all there is, isn't it? — John Edward Williams

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams. — John Guare

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that. — John Williams

His mother regarded her life patiently, as if it were a long moment that she had to endure. — John Edward Williams

I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family. — John Williams

From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal. — John Edward Williams

...everything you say is a fact, but none of it is true — John Williams

What did you expect? — John Williams

John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland. — Betty Williams

When he had thought of death before, he had thought of it either as a literary event or as the slow, quiet attrition of time against imperfect flesh. — John Edward Williams

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue. — John Williams

He had dreamed of a kind of integrity, of a kind of purity that was entire... — John Williams

She seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so — John Edward Williams

But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned. — John Edward Williams

Beneath his awe, he had a sudden sense of security and serenity he had never felt before. — John Edward Williams

I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned. — Abigail Williams

A man may live like a fool for a year, and become wise in a day. — John Williams

A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it. — John Williams

He was our enemy, but as it is strange, after so many years the death of an old enemy is like the death of an old friend. — John Edward Williams

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne. — Hank Williams Jr.

For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful. — John Edward Williams

...and he wondered if he appeared as ludicrous to others as he did to himself. — John Williams

Looking at her, Stoner was assailed by a consciousness of his own heavy clumsiness. — John Edward Williams

Stoner saw them through a haze, as if he were an audience. — John Edward Williams

And we have come out of this, at least, with ourselves. We know that we are - what we are. — John Williams

He felt both shame and pride, and over it all a bitter disappointment, in himself and in the time and circumstance that made him possible. — John Williams

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love. — Robin Williams

The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It's perhaps the best book I've read in years. — Stephen Elliott

I tend to be a bitch when it's hot. — John A. Williams

So I must be locked up, where I can be safely irresponsible, where I can do no harm. — John Williams

For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway. — John Williams

For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies. — John Edward Williams

That is the very best time of life, he thought again: when you are very young, when living is a simple, perfect succession of golden days. — John Edward Williams

They walked with some purpose, yet without particular hurry, — John Edward Williams

I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood. — John Williams

You may need to refresh — John Williams

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race. — Juan Williams

One looks at death, always moves toward it, but until the last denies its existence. — John A. Williams

I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras. — Patrick McEnroe

He thought of the years before, the distant years with his parents on the farm, and of the deadness from which he had been miraculously revived. — John Edward Williams

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music. — John Williams

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government. — John Sharp Williams

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time. — Bill Williams

The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy, I can almost hear him saying, — John Edward Williams

They had forgiven themselves for the harm they had done each other, and they were rapt in a regard of what their life together might have been. — John Williams

The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim. — John A. Williams

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before. — John Edward Williams

He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember. — John Edward Williams

We need not forgive ourselves," he (Augustus) said. "It has been a marriage. It has been better than most. — John Williams

I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks. — John Fogerty

She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest conditions of her life. — John Williams

Like all lovers, they spoke much of themselves, as if they might thereby understand the world which made them possible. — John Edward Williams

I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's. — Jayson Williams

He felt the logic of grammar, and he thought he perceived how it spread out from itself, permeating the language and supporting human thought. — John Edward Williams

Saying, ain't doing. — John Williams

but his long thin fingers moved with grace and persuasion, as if giving to the words a shape that his voice could not. — John Williams

To read without joy is stupid. — John Williams

I wouldn't know Robbie Williams if I fell over him. — John Barry

I look for the John Proctor who took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! — Abigail Williams