Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.
• Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
• Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
• Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
• Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
• Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
• Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
• Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
• Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
• Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
• So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
• So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive.
• So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.
• So the first thing that I thought about was, 'How is this car going to handle?' But then after I'd been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back.
• Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
• Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
• Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
• Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.
• Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
• Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
• Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
• Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
• Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
• Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.
• Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
• Speak low, if you speak love.
• Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
• Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
• Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
• Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
• Success and failure are equally disastrous.
• Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
• Success is the sweetest revenge.
• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
• Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
• Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
• Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.