Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fisk

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

Wes Anderson

the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..."

Wally Amos

Each year I become more mindful of being thankful for each life experience.

Walt Disney

If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast

Walt Disney

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

Wassily Kandinsky

Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.

Walter Martin

Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.

Walter Jon Williams

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

Voltaire

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Voltaire

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

William Ernest Hocking

Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

William Ralph Inge

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

William Labov

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

William Labov

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

William Lilly

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

William Lilly

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

William Irwin Thompson

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

William Hurt

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

William C. Bryant

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

William Butler Yeats

All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.

William Butler Yeats

Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

William Butler Yeats

Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

Walter White

I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.

Walter Savage Landor

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

Walter Scott

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Walter Gilbert

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

Walter F. Mondale

I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living.

Walter Dean Myers

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

William Jackson

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

William Katt

Let's care and nurture our bodies. You are looking after something from a very early stage. Like a plant, you're giving it food and water and when it grows, look at the amount of buds it gives you. Every year it flourishes and comes back time and time again. Look after yourselves and don't be embarrassed about it.

Yishan Wong

One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.

Yo-Yo Ma

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.