Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William Manchester

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

William Maxwell

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

Woody Guthrie

Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.

Witold Walczak

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

Wislawa Szymborska

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

Winston Churchill

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

Will Rogers

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

Will Rogers

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Will Rogers

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

Will Rogers

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Wes Craven

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

Zacky Vengeance

I like hip-hop, I like yay music.

William E. Gladstone

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

William E. Gladstone

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

Wendell Willkie

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

Warren E. Burger

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

Vivienne Westwood

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Vivienne Westwood

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Walter Benjamin

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

Walter Benjamin

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness

William Blake

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Wale

Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.

Samuel Beckett

How hideous is the semicolon.

Salman Rushdie

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Salman Rushdie

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Rudolf Otto

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.

Whitney Houston

Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.

Wendy Liebman

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.

Waqar Younis

Having scored 298 and still hitting a six issomething unimaginable and youneed to be a genius for that

Josie Maran

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

Josiah Royce

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.