Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I understand everything,” he said. “You understand nothing, but it really doesn’t matter, since what you mean is, you’re glad to see me, just as I’m glad to see you because no more loneliness.” “That’s what I mean,” said Fezzik.
William Goldman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
Nothing
Matter
Mean
Loneliness
Really
Glad
Since
Understand
Doesn
Everything
More quotes by William Goldman
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman
Who are you? No one of consequence. I must know. Get used to disappointment.
William Goldman
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
William Goldman
I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.
William Goldman
Liar! Liar! shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. Back, Witch-- he commanded. I'm not a witch, I'm your wife-- she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury--and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more--
William Goldman
i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion i have not been happy dealing with it.
William Goldman
You seem a decent fellow, Inigo said. I hate to kill you. You seem a decent fellow, answered the man in black. I hate to die.
William Goldman
While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. [...] Down went the man in black. [...] You can die too for all I care, she said, and then she turned away. Words followed her. Whispered from far, weak and warm and familiar. As...you...wish...
William Goldman
You're alive! Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.
William Goldman
He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
William Goldman
I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
William Goldman
Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
William Goldman
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
William Goldman
You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.
William Goldman
People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.
William Goldman
There are always too few perfect breasts in this world leave yours alone.
William Goldman
You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.
William Goldman
I don't like killing a girl, the Spaniard said. God does it all the time if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.
William Goldman
You have a dizzying intellect.
William Goldman
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
William Goldman