Famous Quotes & Sayings

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

William T. Vollmann

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

William Styron

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

William Styron

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Wilbur Wright

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wilbur Wright

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

Wilbur Wright

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

Wilbur Wright

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Wilbur Wright

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

Wilbur Ross

There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions.

Will Harvey

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

Will Harvey

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Will Wright

For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media.

Will Wright

On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.

Wally Schirra

At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.

Wally Schirra

I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.

Wadah Khanfar

If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succeed.

Wally Lamb

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Gloria Steinem

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

Gloria Steinem

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We always think that everybody can do a little bit more, if not a lot more.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough.

Dale Murphy

Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.

Dale Murphy

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

Aung San Suu Kyi

There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

Allen West

In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have 'the first African-American president.'

Alton Brown

For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that.