William Falconer Quotes

If you carry a leaky water bag, you will get your back wet.

Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone.

Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.

We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.

I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in bars that they would be too scared to go into, and a world that they would never get to see. All of that is something really unusual and rare and kind of fascinating. And the only way to do that and to make it really worthwhile was that it had to be authentic. We dedicated a lot of time and energy to making that right and real. So we found basically the worst locations that we could.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

You don’t think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It’s the same kind of feeling. I’m just in it. It’s not the words, it’s not the sentences, I’m not aware of it. Then it’s good.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.

Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.