Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

William Shirley

I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.

William Shenstone

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

William Saroyan

There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth.

William Saroyan

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

William Shatner

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

William McIlvanney

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

William McKinley

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

William J. Clinton

Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.

William J. Clinton

Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.

William J. Clinton

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny Carter redefined American jazz. From the start, his fellow musicians said the way he played the sax was amazing. They say that about me, too. (Laughter.) But I don't think they mean it in quite the same way.

William J. Clinton

You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.

William J. Clinton

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

William James

Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

William Gaddis

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

William Gilmore Simms

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

William Gilmore Simms

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

William Friedkin

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

Will Cuppy

The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

Will Durant

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

Whitney Cummings

I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

Sarah Silverman

The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

Sarah Silverman

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time.

Sarah Palin

We should create law based on the God of the Bible,

Sara Bareilles

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

Saoirse Ronan

When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.

Samuel Pepys

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

Samuel Rogers

That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

Samuel P. Huntington

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.

Samuel P. Huntington

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Samuel P. Huntington

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.