Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
• Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
• Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
• With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
• With reasonable men, I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
• Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
• Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
• Women lie about their age men lie about their income.
• Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
• Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
• Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
• Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
• Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
• Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.
• Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.
• Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
• You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.
• You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
• You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
• You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
• You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.
• You can never trust what you read.
• You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
• You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
• You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
• You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
• You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
• You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.
• You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.
• You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
• You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
• You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.
• You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
• You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
• You need to be silly to be funny.
• You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.
• You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.