Mr Compson Quotes

#1. Ah, Mr Compson said, Years ago we in the South made our women into ladies. Then the War came and made the ladies into ghosts. So what else can we do, being gentlemen, but listen to them being ghosts?

William Faulkner

#2. Change starts with awareness.

Chris Prentiss

#3. I couldn't think of anything to say so I kept quiet. I still can't think of anything to say so I am going to sleep.

Sue Townsend

#4. The terrors ingrained in a child went deeper than any anxiety acquired as an adult. The fear bred itself right into growing bones, mellowed into hatred, and became part of the DNA. In my case, it laced the edges of every cell, like heroin and equally addictive. The

Anne McAneny

#5. My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.

Vaginal Davis

#6. For some reason, the Secret Service revealed this, that Sarah Palin's Secret Service code name is 'Denali.' Turns out 'Denali' is an old Eskimo name that means 'Dan Quayle.'

Jay Leno

#7. Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

Henri Nouwen

#8. I have come to understand church as this: the presence of Jesus among His people called out as a spiritual family to pursue His mission on this planet.

Neil Cole

#9. The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

Andy Warhol

#10. The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to the illegal trade of drugs and arms.

David Batstone

#11. He grinned. "I knew you loved me, Tessa."

Tessa's cheeks reddened. "One more word, and I WILL have Morgan give you the consent lecture.

Emery Lord

#12. ORDINARY SAD-ASS HUMANNESS

William Gibson

#13. It is by love alone that we understand anything

James Stephens

#14. And not only an architect, as General Compson said, but an artist since only an artist could have borne those two years in order to build a house which he doubtless not only expected but firmly intended never to see again.

William Faulkner

#15. The sea refuses no river

Benjamin Compson

#16. I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.

Izabella Scorupco

#17. Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's a man's most anonymous age.

Stephen King

#18. I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.

Brad Templeton