Elijah William > Elijah's Quotes

“I hate judging people, it's because I know i'm right”
― Elijah William

“I wish my mother would stop doing the dishes,
and father would hand out more kisses.”
― Elijah William

“Maybe it did rain around her,
but I can't tell a storm from a sunny cloud.”
― Elijah William

“I was mean to you, then you said I wasn't a poet.”
― Elijah William

“sometimes you're the guy looking at people walk past while you sit on the bus.
other times you're the guy walking past.”
― Elijah William

“Jack my style? No
Jack me off? Yes”
― Elijah William

“Think of an idea. Fantasise. Realise. Doubt. Start again.”
― Elijah William

“Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don't dance
So you might as well
dance.”
― Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

“Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.”
― John Fante, The Brotherhood of the Grape