Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
• I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
• I think I can change the game.
• I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.
• I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
• I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
• I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.
• I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.
• I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
• I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
• I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
• I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.
• I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
• I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.
• I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.
• I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
• I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.
• I trust the people.
• I used to do this as a kid. And now they're paying me for it, which is cool.
• I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
• I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
• I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.
• I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.
• I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
• I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
• I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.
• I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
• I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
• I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.
• I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.
• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
• I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.
• I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
• I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
• I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
• I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.
• I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
• I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
• I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
• I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
• I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
• I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
• I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.
• I'm always on the court with my dad.
• I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.
• I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.