180000 famous quotes part 179 – 178001 to 179000

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180000 famous quotes part 179 – 178001 to 179000

178001. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. – Orville Wright

178002. In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. – Orville Wright

178003. We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building. – Orville Wright

178004. In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind. – Orville Wright

178005. With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. – Orville Wright

178006. One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet. – Orville Wright

178007. I tried to learn the violin for a while. – Peter Wright

178008. I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour. – Peter Wright

178009. When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them. – Peter Wright

178010. Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. – Peter Wright

178011. I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not. – Peter Wright

178012. You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop. – Peter Wright

178013. I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake. – Peter Wright

178014. I never know what it’s going to look like. Wouldn’t be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don’t know, it’s improvisation isn’t it? – Peter Wright

178015. I have to experiment with methods and I’m trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture. – Peter Wright

178016. I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting. – Peter Wright

178017. I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before. – Peter Wright

178018. As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment. – Peter Wright

178019. I’ve had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I’ve even worked in a Cornish tin mine. – Peter Wright

178020. The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. – Richard Wright

178021. The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. – Richard Wright

178022. Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. – Richard Wright

178023. Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright

178024. It’s becoming very much like 1979 again. – Richard Wright

178025. I’d like to see the bay cleaned up before I die. – Richard Wright

178026. Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented. – Richard Wright

178027. I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright

178028. We fought during ‘The Wall,’ which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and ‘Wish You Were Here.’ Actually, we never got along. – Rick Wright

178029. Pink Floyd is like a marriage that’s on a permanent trial separation. – Rick Wright

178030. I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics. – Rick Wright

178031. The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money. – Rick Wright

178032. We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can’t, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it. – Rick Wright

178033. Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do. – Ronald Wright

178034. Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. – Steven Wright

178035. My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. – Steven Wright

178036. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen? – Steven Wright

178037. My neighbor has a circular driveway… he can’t get out. – Steven Wright

178038. If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer? – Steven Wright

178039. It doesn’t matter what temperature the room is, it’s always room temperature. – Steven Wright

178040. Is it weird in here, or is it just me? – Steven Wright

178041. In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. – Steven Wright

178042. If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer? – Steven Wright

178043. If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke? – Steven Wright

178044. Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. – Steven Wright

178045. If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? – Steven Wright

178046. My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere. – Steven Wright

178047. If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses. – Steven Wright

178048. So, do you live around here often? – Steven Wright

178049. If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? – Steven Wright

178050. If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny. – Steven Wright

178051. If God dropped acid, would he see people? – Steven Wright

178052. If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? – Steven Wright

178053. I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography. – Steven Wright

178054. I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done. – Steven Wright

178055. I wrote a few children’s books… not on purpose. – Steven Wright

178056. If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey? – Steven Wright

178057. What’s another word for Thesaurus? – Steven Wright

178058. Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!’ – Steven Wright

178059. At one point he decided enough was enough. – Steven Wright

178060. A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths. – Steven Wright

178061. You can’t have everything. Where would you put it? – Steven Wright

178062. Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff. – Steven Wright

178063. Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. – Steven Wright

178064. When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, “Did you sleep good?” I said “No, I made a few mistakes.” – Steven Wright

178065. When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, “Well, what do you need?” – Steven Wright

178066. When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually. – Steven Wright

178067. On the other hand, you have different fingers. – Steven Wright

178068. When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction. – Steven Wright

178069. My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. – Steven Wright

178070. What a nice night for an evening. – Steven Wright

178071. There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. – Steven Wright

178072. There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. – Steven Wright

178073. The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me. – Steven Wright

178074. The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. – Steven Wright

178075. Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen. – Steven Wright

178076. It doesn’t make a difference what temperature a room is, it’s always room temperature. – Steven Wright

178077. Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. – Steven Wright

178078. I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. – Steven Wright

178079. When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules? – Steven Wright

178080. I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. – Steven Wright

178081. For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. – Steven Wright

178082. I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious! – Steven Wright

178083. I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I’m gone. – Steven Wright

178084. I have the world’s largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world… perhaps you’ve seen it. – Steven Wright

178085. I have an existential map. It has ‘You are here’ written all over it. – Steven Wright

178086. I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out. – Steven Wright

178087. I had to stop driving my car for a while… the tires got dizzy. – Steven Wright

178088. I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out. – Steven Wright

178089. I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. – Steven Wright

178090. I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add. – Steven Wright

178091. I invented the cordless extension cord. – Steven Wright

178092. I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. – Steven Wright

178093. I like to reminisce with people I don’t know. – Steven Wright

178094. I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it. – Steven Wright

178095. I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included. – Steven Wright

178096. How young can you die of old age? – Steven Wright

178097. Hermits have no peer pressure. – Steven Wright

178098. I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, “What for?” I said, “I’m going to buy some sugar.” – Steven Wright

178099. Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? – Steven Wright

178100. It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it. – Steven Wright

178101. Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? – Steven Wright

178102. Don’t you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night. – Steven Wright

178103. Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don’t get it. – Steven Wright

178104. Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. – Steven Wright

178105. I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list. – Steven Wright

178106. I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter. – Steven Wright

178107. I went to a restaurant that serves “breakfast at any time”. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. – Steven Wright

178108. I went to a general store. They wouldn’t let me buy anything specifically. – Steven Wright

178109. I went to a general store but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific. – Steven Wright

178110. I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ‘Yes, but not in a row.’ – Steven Wright

178111. I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast. – Steven Wright

178112. I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. – Steven Wright

178113. I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. – Steven Wright

178114. I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

178115. I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side. – Steven Wright

178116. I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn’t park anywhere near the place. – Steven Wright

178117. I intend to live forever. So far, so good. – Steven Wright

178118. I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. – Steven Wright

178119. George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk. – Steven Wright

178120. I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. – Steven Wright

178121. I saw a bank that said “24 Hour Banking,” but I don’t have that much time. – Steven Wright

178122. I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I’m the only one moving. – Steven Wright

178123. I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‘Happy Birthday.’ – Steven Wright

178124. Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. – Steven Wright

178125. I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. – Steven Wright

178126. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. – Steven Wright

178127. I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he’s gone. – Steven Wright

178128. I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window. – Steven Wright

178129. I met this wonderful girl at Macy’s. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. – Steven Wright

178130. I live on a one-way street that’s also a dead end. I’m not sure how I got there. – Steven Wright

178131. I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. – Steven Wright

178132. I’m just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don’t wear magnificent clothes. I’ll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything. – Teresa Wright

178133. The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children. – Teresa Wright

178134. I argued that I didn’t have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer. – Teresa Wright

178135. The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. – Wilbur Wright

178136. We could hardly wait to get up in the morning. – Wilbur Wright

178137. It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. – Wilbur Wright

178138. I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. – Wilbur Wright

178139. I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success. – Wilbur Wright

178140. 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 Wright

178141. Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive. – Wilbur Wright

178142. I typically go overboard when I research new projects. – Will Wright

178143. On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me. – Will Wright

178144. It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers – the people in your physical vicinity. – Will Wright

178145. I’m not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software… that you can’t fully test it. – Will Wright

178146. I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it. – Will Wright

178147. 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

178148. Everybody has a different definition of the good side. – Will Wright

178149. Because now it’s the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations! – Will Wright

178150. And so from that, I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity. – Will Wright

178151. And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it’s like a treasure hunt, you know. – Will Wright

178152. Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing. – Will Wright

178153. A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior. – Will Wright

178154. In an online community, there’s this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that’s a good website that’s visited a lot, but there’s no real gameplay there. – Will Wright

178155. There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven’t up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political. – Will Wright

178156. Yes… well, I used to have a pilot’s license. – Will Wright

178157. We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can’t really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area. – Will Wright

178158. The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine. – Will Wright

178159. Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we’ve resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits. – Will Wright

178160. Players like to know that they’ve discovered things that even the designers didn’t know were in the game. – Will Wright

178161. The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play. – Will Wright

178162. The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does. – Will Wright

178163. The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges. – Will Wright

178164. Judgment comes from experience – and experience comes from bad judgment. – Walter Wriston

178165. The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. – Walter Wriston

178166. Why stick your neck out if you don’t have to? If you’re right nobody will remember and if you’re wrong people will ask a lot of questions. – David Wu

178167. Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world. – Wilhelm Wundt

178168. From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large. – Wilhelm Wundt

178169. The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. – Wilhelm Wundt

178170. The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. – Wilhelm Wundt

178171. The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. – Wilhelm Wundt

178172. The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. – Wilhelm Wundt

178173. The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. – Wilhelm Wundt

178174. The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. – Wilhelm Wundt

178175. Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness. – Wilhelm Wundt

178176. We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. – Wilhelm Wundt

178177. In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. – Wilhelm Wundt

178178. Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny. – Wilhelm Wundt

178179. Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other. – Wilhelm Wundt

178180. Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. – Wilhelm Wundt

178181. Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life. – Wilhelm Wundt

178182. In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. – Wilhelm Wundt

178183. Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions. – Wilhelm Wundt

178184. On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question. – Wilhelm Wundt

178185. Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. – Wilhelm Wundt

178186. Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology. – Wilhelm Wundt

178187. Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life. – Wilhelm Wundt

178188. I really got tired of it all. I was angry about the johns. – Aileen Wuornos

178189. My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I’ve come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn’t, then I’d sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it. – Aileen Wuornos

178190. I’m one who seriously hates human life and would kill again. – Aileen Wuornos

178191. I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I’ve hated humans for a long time. – Aileen Wuornos

178192. I need to die for the killing of those people. – Aileen Wuornos

178193. I am a serial killer. I would kill again. – Aileen Wuornos

178194. I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system. – Aileen Wuornos

178195. It’s like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you’re sleeping with. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178196. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178197. That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178198. Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt so bad the morning after. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178199. Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178200. Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178201. My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178202. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn’t do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178203. You don’t even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178204. All I do is go to the movies. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178205. Am I worried people will say I’m repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178206. Everything’s plastic, we’re all gonna die. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178207. Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178208. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don’t know, read something or write my masterpiece. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178209. It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178210. I don’t want any more vicissitudes, I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178211. In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178212. I admire Bruce Springsteen because he’s a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178213. In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178214. I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178215. I’ll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I’ll feel that she’s a politician, like she’s got an agenda to get across and that she doesn’t always say what’s really true or exactly what she feels. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178216. I’d really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178217. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178218. Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178219. I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

178220. The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough? – Joe Wurzelbacher

178221. Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can’t stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are. – Joe Wurzelbacher

178222. Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. – James Wyatt

178223. Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. – James Wyatt

178224. Lost are many great commissions by such neglect. – James Wyatt

178225. I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond. – Jennifer Wyatt

178226. I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I’ve done it a million times before. – Jennifer Wyatt

178227. I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven’t forgotten how. – Jennifer Wyatt

178228. It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women’s tournament, although I really don’t know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually). – Jennifer Wyatt

178229. I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to. – Jennifer Wyatt

178230. It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses. – Jennifer Wyatt

178231. When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother’s voice. – Robert Wyatt

178232. On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers. – Robert Wyatt

178233. My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn’t ever have done in their youth. – Robert Wyatt

178234. People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know. – Robert Wyatt

178235. People say, oh it’s a shame, you’re not nostalgic about the ’60s. Well actually, it’s quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn’t it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back? – Robert Wyatt

178236. The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality. – Robert Wyatt

178237. The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren’t particularly youth culture. – Robert Wyatt

178238. There are people I would like to work with. It’s a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can’t really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing. – Robert Wyatt

178239. There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. – Robert Wyatt

178240. There’s no field of music which doesn’t have good ideas. – Robert Wyatt

178241. This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. – Robert Wyatt

178242. Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that’s the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world. – Robert Wyatt

178243. We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster’s paradise. – Robert Wyatt

178244. What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I’ve already done. – Robert Wyatt

178245. When I’m singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it. – Robert Wyatt

178246. Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It’s a very subjective experience. And I’m loyal to that experience. – Robert Wyatt

178247. I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar. – Robert Wyatt

178248. When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion. – Robert Wyatt

178249. I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians. – Robert Wyatt

178250. Anybody who thinks pop music’s easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn’t. – Robert Wyatt

178251. Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less. – Robert Wyatt

178252. Even if you’re specific about the character of the song, it’s more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs. – Robert Wyatt

178253. I don’t do live things. – Robert Wyatt

178254. I don’t find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap. – Robert Wyatt

178255. I don’t know how many thoughts we have a second, but it’s quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. – Robert Wyatt

178256. I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. – Robert Wyatt

178257. I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer. – Robert Wyatt

178258. I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. – Robert Wyatt

178259. I’m not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I’m sorry that I’ve done a Neil Diamond song. – Robert Wyatt

178260. I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. – Robert Wyatt

178261. It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. – Robert Wyatt

178262. I’m not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. – Robert Wyatt

178263. It just doesn’t mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends. – Robert Wyatt

178264. In theory, I’d like to work in a group. But the group I’d like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. – Robert Wyatt

178265. In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. – Robert Wyatt

178266. I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don’t want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal. – Robert Wyatt

178267. I’ve always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really. – Robert Wyatt

178268. I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. – Robert Wyatt

178269. I’m just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. – Robert Wyatt

178270. I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. – Robert Wyatt

178271. I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they’re about the exuberance of youth. That’s the sort of subliminal ideology. – Robert Wyatt

178272. I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick’s organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously. – Robert Wyatt

178273. If you’ve never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you’ve got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy. – Robert Wyatt

178274. Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other. – William Wycherley

178275. Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. – William Wycherley

178276. Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and ‘Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. – William Wycherley

178277. Women serve but to keep a man from better company. – William Wycherley

178278. Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. – William Wycherley

178279. Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business. – William Wycherley

178280. A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. – William Wycherley

178281. Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. – William Wycherley

178282. Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. – William Wycherley

178283. He’s a fool that marries, but he’s a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold? – William Wycherley

178284. Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. – William Wycherley

178285. Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. – William Wycherley

178286. Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. – William Wycherley

178287. Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. – William Wycherley

178288. Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. – William Wycherley

178289. Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. – William Wycherley

178290. I weigh the man, not his title; ’tis not the king’s stamp can make the metal better. – William Wycherley

178291. I have heard people eat most heartily of another man’s meat, that is, what they do not pay for. – William Wycherley

178292. Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. – William Wycherley

178293. I believe that in the end the truth will conquer. – John Wycliffe

178294. In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis. – John Wycliffe

178295. The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy’s temptations. – John Wycliffe

178296. This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people’ – John Wycliffe

178297. My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don’t go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it. – Ron Wyden

178298. There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein. – Ron Wyden

178299. I don’t care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn’t have to hide who you are. – Ron Wyden

178300. The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it’s grotesque. – Ron Wyden

178301. The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer. – Ron Wyden

178302. This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly. – Ron Wyden

178303. Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates. – Ron Wyden

178304. It’s time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It’s time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow – building a health care system that works for all Americans. – Ron Wyden

178305. It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning. – Ron Wyden

178306. I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices. – Ron Wyden

178307. Every single day, the flood of pornographic and sleazy spam grows. – Ron Wyden

178308. In today’s world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. – Ron Wyden

178309. To have all your life’s work and to have them along the wall, it’s like walking in with no clothes on. It’s terrible. – Andrew Wyeth

178310. To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. – Andrew Wyeth

178311. One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes. – Andrew Wyeth

178312. It’s all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is the motion. – Andrew Wyeth

178313. It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment. – Andrew Wyeth

178314. I’m a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting… it would be like somebody watching you have sex – painting is that personal to me. – Andrew Wyeth

178315. If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window. – Andrew Wyeth

178316. I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature – the very thought of it drives me mad. – Andrew Wyeth

178317. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show. – Andrew Wyeth

178318. I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious. – Andrew Wyeth

178319. I don’t really have studios. I wander around around people’s attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. – Andrew Wyeth

178320. I can’t work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free. – Andrew Wyeth

178321. At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. – Andrew Wyeth

178322. Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing – then a work of art may happen. – Andrew Wyeth

178323. I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. – Andrew Wyeth

178324. I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it… I always want to see the third dimension of something… I want to come alive with the object. – Andrew Wyeth

178325. Since day one my thing has always been to play the music. – Zakk Wylde

178326. You never toot your own horn. – Zakk Wylde

178327. We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer. – Zakk Wylde

178328. We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest. – Zakk Wylde

178329. There’s only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi. – Zakk Wylde

178330. The way I look at it you can always get better. – Zakk Wylde

178331. You’re never going to learn everything. – Zakk Wylde

178332. If you bleed Black Label and you’re going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be. – Zakk Wylde

178333. I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage. – Zakk Wylde

178334. The tours are campaigns. – Zakk Wylde

178335. I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don’t even get 15 minutes of fame, it’s like a minute and a half. – Zakk Wylde

178336. That’s why for Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it’s white. There’s no in-between. – Zakk Wylde

178337. I’ve messed myself up more playing music than when I played football. – Zakk Wylde

178338. I’m just worried that there’s enough beer on the bus. That’s the top priority at all times. – Zakk Wylde

178339. If I’m playing with Ozzy it’s just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I’m studying for the SATs. – Zakk Wylde

178340. It isn’t a band. It’s bigger than a band. It’s a lifestyle. – Zakk Wylde

178341. It’s pure Black Label. It’s about violence and booze. That’s all it is. There is no plan. – Zakk Wylde

178342. On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest. – Zakk Wylde

178343. One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she’s pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you’re not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months. – Zakk Wylde

178344. Ozzy has dyslexia. – Zakk Wylde

178345. Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you’re going to pay me for this! – Zakk Wylde

178346. If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot. – Zakk Wylde

178347. Another Black Label motto. That’s what I think life is. It’s just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it. – Zakk Wylde

178348. Chris Jericho is a great guy. He’s beyond hysterical. He’s good people. They’re really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out. – Zakk Wylde

178349. Because with Black Label and all the fans it’s just one big family. – Zakk Wylde

178350. Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas. – Zakk Wylde

178351. Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib. – Zakk Wylde

178352. Any guy that’s not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don’t want to know. – Zakk Wylde

178353. Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy. – Noah Wyle

178354. I’m a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony. – Noah Wyle

178355. I’m thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I’ve got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony – and my daughter Grammy. – Noah Wyle

178356. I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse. – William Wyler

178357. Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen. – William Wyler

178358. It’s eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There’s nothing else to it. – William Wyler

178359. If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I’ll punch him in the nose, and I don’t care how old he is. – William Wyler

178360. It’s a miserable life in Hollywood. You’re up at five or six o’clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine. – William Wyler

178361. If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now. – Elinor Wylie

178362. I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose. – Elinor Wylie

178363. In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. – Elinor Wylie

178364. If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. – Philip Wylie

178365. Ignorance is not bliss – it is oblivion. – Philip Wylie

178366. Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. – Philip Wylie

178367. One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. – Philip Wylie

178368. God must hate common people, because he made them so common. – Philip Wylie

178369. You’re always frustrated, you don’t have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones. – Bill Wyman

178370. If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom. – Bill Wyman

178371. My first record I owned was by Les Paul. – Bill Wyman

178372. The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that. – Bill Wyman

178373. The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could. – Bill Wyman

178374. There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician. – Bill Wyman

178375. I was listening to music long before rock ‘n roll. – Bill Wyman

178376. You never know what your next dig is going to find. – Bill Wyman

178377. I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium. – Bill Wyman

178378. With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs. – Bill Wyman

178379. I don’t make any money. – Bill Wyman

178380. But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old – apart from a few hits – is never played on radio to the young public? – Bill Wyman

178381. Everything had to be done in-between Stones time. – Bill Wyman

178382. I always got great respect as a bass player. – Bill Wyman

178383. I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project. – Bill Wyman

178384. I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings. – Bill Wyman

178385. I’m always shy in front of an audience, so I’m always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don’t like the front, the adulation. – Bill Wyman

178386. I didn’t want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn’t like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I’m interested in because of time. – Bill Wyman

178387. Because of the fashion, the young people don’t have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can’t earn any money doing it. – Bill Wyman

178388. I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on. – Bill Wyman

178389. I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in. – Bill Wyman

178390. I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with. – Bill Wyman

178391. I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography. – Bill Wyman

178392. I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle. – Bill Wyman

178393. I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings. – Bill Wyman

178394. I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography. – Bill Wyman

178395. I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones. – Bill Wyman

178396. I guess I just don’t have a talent for it, some women just aren’t the marrying kind – or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I’m one of them. – Jane Wyman

178397. The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. – Jane Wyman

178398. I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I’ll do it again now. – Jane Wyman

178399. Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. – Tammy Wynette

178400. Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. – Tammy Wynette

178401. I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats. – Albert Wynn

178402. I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy. – Albert Wynn

178403. It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years. – Albert Wynn

178404. People can expect to see a lot of me – I’m not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs. – Albert Wynn

178405. We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal. – Albert Wynn

178406. I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car. – Albert Wynn

178407. Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine. – Albert Wynn

178408. I hate to lose the constituency that I’ve worked with, but I’ve got 170,000 people to meet in my new district. – Albert Wynn

178409. I don’t like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale. – Early Wynn

178410. That space between the white lines, that’s my office. That’s where I conduct my business. – Early Wynn

178411. A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters. – Early Wynn

178412. A pitcher is only as good as his legs. – Early Wynn

178413. A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy. – Early Wynn

178414. I’ve got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat. – Early Wynn

178415. I’ve found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day – let the calendar take care of the years. – Ed Wynn

178416. A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once. – Ed Wynn

178417. Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it. – Ed Wynn

178418. Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization’s history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. – Steve Wynn

178419. The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject. – Jon Wynne-Tyson

178420. Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. – Lois Wyse

178421. Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you’re the one in the green dress. – Lois Wyse

178422. A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. – Lois Wyse

178423. The Poles do not know how to hate, thank God. – Stefan Wyszynski

178424. Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards. – Francis Xavier

178425. I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. – Xenocrates

178426. But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves. – Xenophanes

178427. God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. – Xenophanes

178428. It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man. – Xenophanes

178429. Men create the gods in their own image. – Xenophanes

178430. No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so. – Xenophanes

178431. The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. – Xenophon

178432. Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. – Xenophon

178433. Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. – Xenophon

178434. There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. – Xenophon

178435. He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce. – Xenophon

178436. For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer. – Xenophon

178437. A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. – Xenophon

178438. For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim. – Xenophon

178439. Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. – Xenophon

178440. The sweetest of all sounds is praise. – Xenophon

178441. Reform is China’s second revolution. – Deng Xiaoping

178442. When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. – Deng Xiaoping

178443. To get rich is glorious. – Deng Xiaoping

178444. The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. – Deng Xiaoping

178445. Seek truth from facts. – Deng Xiaoping

178446. Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step. – Deng Xiaoping

178447. Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. – Deng Xiaoping

178448. Let some people get rich first. – Deng Xiaoping

178449. Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead – but aim to do something big. – Deng Xiaoping

178450. It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. – Deng Xiaoping

178451. The minority yields to the majority! – Deng Xiaoping

178452. When you use words, you’re able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. – Gao Xingjian

178453. Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. – Gao Xingjian

178454. Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it? – Gao Xingjian

178455. As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women’s worlds. – Gao Xingjian

178456. In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? – Gao Xingjian

178457. To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. – Lu Xun

178458. I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178459. My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178460. Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178461. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178462. Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178463. The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party’s government. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178464. Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178465. It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178466. Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178467. I work so much. If I don’t get all the comforts, I will turn mad. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178468. Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178469. I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178470. If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick. – Lalu Prasad Yadav

178471. The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old. – Rosalyn S. Yalow

178472. The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. – Rosalyn S. Yalow

178473. I’ve had a lot more fun with the training. – Kristi Yamaguchi

178474. The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating. – Kristi Yamaguchi

178475. When I first skated here, I definitely felt small out there because it is such a big surface. – Kristi Yamaguchi

178476. I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. – Isoroku Yamamoto

178477. In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. – Isoroku Yamamoto

178478. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. – Isoroku Yamamoto

178479. A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. – Isoroku Yamamoto

178480. If you examine this, I think that you will find that it’s the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. – Minoru Yamasaki

178481. I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future. – Minoru Yamasaki

178482. The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus. – Minoru Yamasaki

178483. The view outside was much more important than the exhibits. – Minoru Yamasaki

178484. So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. – Minoru Yamasaki

178485. Let’s talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job. – Minoru Yamasaki

178486. Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. – Minoru Yamasaki

178487. In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense. – Minoru Yamasaki

178488. In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building. – Minoru Yamasaki

178489. In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building. – Minoru Yamasaki

178490. If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls. – Minoru Yamasaki

178491. We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don’t go anywhere. They shouldn’t be restless. – Minoru Yamasaki

178492. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace… a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. – Minoru Yamasaki

178493. And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette. – Minoru Yamasaki

178494. If you look at the buildings, you’ll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see. – Minoru Yamasaki

178495. I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. – Minoru Yamasaki

178496. And exciting buildings are fine periodically. – Minoru Yamasaki

178497. And I like the idea of change. Because I don’t see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it’s there like a piece of furniture. – Minoru Yamasaki

178498. And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life. – Minoru Yamasaki

178499. And sometimes I’m criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously. – Minoru Yamasaki

178500. I can’t do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could. – Minoru Yamasaki

178501. Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway. – Minoru Yamasaki

178502. But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like. – Minoru Yamasaki

178503. I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation. – Minoru Yamasaki

178504. Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily. – Minoru Yamasaki

178505. And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important. – Minoru Yamasaki

178506. I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think. – Minoru Yamasaki

178507. Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back. – Martin Yan

178508. So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won’t have the patience to pick them out. – Martin Yan

178509. People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. – Martin Yan

178510. Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father’s business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef. – Martin Yan

178511. If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things. – Martin Yan

178512. I’ve never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I’m a cooking teacher. – Martin Yan

178513. The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me. – Martin Yan

178514. You don’t have to show people how successful you are. – Martin Yan

178515. In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans. – Martin Yan

178516. The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united. – Martin Yan

178517. Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful. – Martin Yan

178518. When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That’s all that matters. – Martin Yan

178519. When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play. – Martin Yan

178520. When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup. – Martin Yan

178521. You can do almost anything with soup stock, it’s like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good. – Martin Yan

178522. I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free. – Martin Yan

178523. Soy sauce is really a multi-purpose seasoning. – Martin Yan

178524. Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united. – Martin Yan

178525. Because normally with Western cuisine, you’ll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables. – Martin Yan

178526. The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it’s ruined. – Martin Yan

178527. Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent. – Martin Yan

178528. At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant. – Martin Yan

178529. Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general. – Martin Yan

178530. First of all, I can’t really claim to be a great chef. – Martin Yan

178531. Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful. – Martin Yan

178532. I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed. – Martin Yan

178533. I think a lot of times it’s not money that’s the primary motivation factor; it’s the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you. – Martin Yan

178534. A lot of people don’t enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion. – Martin Yan

178535. I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large. – Martin Yan

178536. I don’t like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day. – Martin Yan

178537. I enjoy the quiet life. – Martin Yan

178538. I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys. – Martin Yan

178539. I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child’s cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef. – Martin Yan

178540. I live a very low-key life. – Martin Yan

178541. I normally don’t eat junk food. – Martin Yan

178542. I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life. – Martin Yan

178543. As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn’t matter if it’s Chinese, Japanese, anything. – Martin Yan

178544. As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict. – Chen Ning Yang

178545. The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China. – Chen Ning Yang

178546. In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict. – Chen Ning Yang

178547. In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within. – Chen Ning Yang

178548. I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work. – Chen Ning Yang

178549. I was later to receive an excellent first two years’ graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund. – Chen Ning Yang

178550. Certainly Yahoo! wouldn’t exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it. – Jerry Yang

178551. At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute. – Al Yankovic

178552. I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know. – Al Yankovic

178553. I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing. – Al Yankovic

178554. What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat? – Al Yankovic

178555. We must improve our lives and we will do it together – all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine. – Viktor Yanukovych

178556. The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us. – Viktor Yanukovych

178557. For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me. – Viktor Yanukovych

178558. I don’t need power at the cost of spilled blood. – Viktor Yanukovych

178559. I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people. – Viktor Yanukovych

178560. I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody’s attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms. – Cale Yarborough

178561. If he’d just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I’d have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it. – Cale Yarborough

178562. I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport. – Cale Yarborough

178563. I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it’s useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time. – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

178564. Very few editors worry about heresy – their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

178565. Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

178566. Providing a writer isn’t put off by conventions – and some are – attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing. – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

178567. Isn’t that an odd philosophy for a vampire? – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

178568. I’m not a good collaborator in general. – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

178569. I ride horseback – arthritic knees permitting – or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it’s hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read. – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

178570. I outline fairly extensively because I’m usually dealing with real events. I don’t need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript. – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

178571. Common folk didn’t have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries. – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

178572. If they aren’t real enough to surprise me, then they aren’t real enough to go on the page. – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

178573. We’ll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won’t be easy. That doesn’t mean it can’t be done. – Zev Yaroslavsky

178574. I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers – but much more by the Dodgers. – Zev Yaroslavsky

178575. We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves. – Peter Yarrow

178576. We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example – particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action – lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure. – Peter Yarrow

178577. I feel like I need to sing again. – Peter Yarrow

178578. To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don’t deal with the causes we will never be safe. – Peter Yarrow

178579. There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement. – Ahmed Yassin

178580. Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands. – Ahmed Yassin

178581. Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression. – Ahmed Yassin

178582. Where are the Muslim people’s sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer? – Ahmed Yassin

178583. The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people. – Ahmed Yassin

178584. Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty – to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America’s domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle – either victory or martyrdom. – Ahmed Yassin

178585. The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world. – Ahmed Yassin

178586. The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance. – Ahmed Yassin

178587. There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying. – Ahmed Yassin

178588. There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different. – Ahmed Yassin

178589. We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory. – Ahmed Yassin

178590. We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland. – Ahmed Yassin

178591. We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business. – Ahmed Yassin

178592. Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements. – Ahmed Yassin

178593. The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon. – Ahmed Yassin

178594. I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza. – Ahmed Yassin

178595. The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again. – Ahmed Yassin

178596. But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price. – Ahmed Yassin

178597. Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs. – Ahmed Yassin

178598. Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong. – Ahmed Yassin

178599. Hamas’ battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield. – Ahmed Yassin

178600. Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament. – Ahmed Yassin

178601. However, the resources at our people’s disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy. – Ahmed Yassin

178602. If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we’ll have a hudna. If it isn’t, we won’t. – Ahmed Yassin

178603. In all cases our stance will be determined by what serves the interests of the Palestinian people. – Ahmed Yassin

178604. In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine. – Ahmed Yassin

178605. Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map. – Ahmed Yassin

178606. It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression. – Ahmed Yassin

178607. Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large. – Ahmed Yassin

178608. Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers. – Ahmed Yassin

178609. History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world. – Ahmed Yassin

178610. I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June. – Carl Yastrzemski

178611. You don’t always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out. – Carl Yastrzemski

178612. This is a strange game. – Carl Yastrzemski

178613. I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it. – Carl Yastrzemski

178614. And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I’ll take the pennant every time. – Carl Yastrzemski

178615. The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything. – Carl Yastrzemski

178616. I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That’s how I treated my career. I didn’t think I was anybody special, anybody different. – Carl Yastrzemski

178617. More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works. – Brock Yates

178618. The bicycle is a former child’s toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. – Brock Yates

178619. Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late ’60’s. – Brock Yates

178620. I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren. – Brock Yates

178621. I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles. – Brock Yates

178622. Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor. – Brock Yates

178623. Don’t get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise. – Brock Yates

178624. The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. – Brock Yates

178625. When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul. – Dornford Yates

178626. Now I’m starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children. – Paula Yates

178627. When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief. – Paula Yates

178628. Never wait for trouble. – Chuck Yeager

178629. You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up. – Chuck Yeager

178630. You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. – Chuck Yeager

178631. Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own. – Chuck Yeager

178632. Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight. – Chuck Yeager

178633. If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off. – Chuck Yeager

178634. I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. – Chuck Yeager

178635. There’s no such thing as a natural-born pilot. – Chuck Yeager

178636. Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don’t do, you don’t believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane. – Chuck Yeager

178637. What’s meant to be will always find a way. – Trisha Yearwood

178638. Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. – J. B. Yeats

178639. Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. – William Butler Yeats

178640. The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. – William Butler Yeats

178641. The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. – William Butler Yeats

178642. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. – William Butler Yeats

178643. Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. – William Butler Yeats

178644. People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. – William Butler Yeats

178645. Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart. – William Butler Yeats

178646. One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. – William Butler Yeats

178647. The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. – William Butler Yeats

178648. Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. – William Butler Yeats

178649. You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats

178650. Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. – William Butler Yeats

178651. Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. – William Butler Yeats

178652. Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. – William Butler Yeats

178653. In dreams begins responsibility. – William Butler Yeats

178654. Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. – William Butler Yeats

178655. Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? – William Butler Yeats

178656. If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. – William Butler Yeats

178657. You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. – William Butler Yeats

178658. Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. – William Butler Yeats

178659. Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. – William Butler Yeats

178660. When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. – William Butler Yeats

178661. We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. – William Butler Yeats

178662. The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. – William Butler Yeats

178663. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. – William Butler Yeats

178664. The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. – William Butler Yeats

178665. To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school – women must labor to be beautiful. – William Butler Yeats

178666. Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. – William Butler Yeats

178667. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. – William Butler Yeats

178668. Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats

178669. There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met. – William Butler Yeats

178670. The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. – William Butler Yeats

178671. We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. – William Butler Yeats

178672. An intellectual hatred is the worst. – William Butler Yeats

178673. Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. – William Butler Yeats

178674. This melancholy London – I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. – William Butler Yeats

178675. Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry. – William Butler Yeats

178676. But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. – William Butler Yeats

178677. Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. – William Butler Yeats

178678. Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. – William Butler Yeats

178679. Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! – William Butler Yeats

178680. And say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats

178681. Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. – William Butler Yeats

178682. An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. – William Butler Yeats

178683. All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. – William Butler Yeats

178684. Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. – William Butler Yeats

178685. A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. – William Butler Yeats

178686. A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught. – William Butler Yeats

178687. I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. – William Butler Yeats

178688. Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. – William Butler Yeats

178689. I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. – William Butler Yeats

178690. I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. – William Butler Yeats

178691. I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. – William Butler Yeats

178692. I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. – William Butler Yeats

178693. I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’ – William Butler Yeats

178694. But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? – William Butler Yeats

178695. I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. – William Butler Yeats

178696. Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. – William Butler Yeats

178697. I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood – sex and the dead. – William Butler Yeats

178698. I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. – William Butler Yeats

178699. How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. – William Butler Yeats

178700. How can we know the dancer from the dance? – William Butler Yeats

178701. Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. – William Butler Yeats

178702. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. – William Butler Yeats

178703. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats

178704. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William Butler Yeats

178705. I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. – William Butler Yeats

178706. There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air. – Isaac Yeffet

178707. Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber – reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian – the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy. – Isaac Yeffet

178708. We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter. – Isaac Yeffet

178709. We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open – anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants. – Isaac Yeffet

178710. We have an illusion of security, we don’t have security. – Isaac Yeffet

178711. They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for – you profile – you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers. – Isaac Yeffet

178712. Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him. – Isaac Yeffet

178713. Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?… Terrible. I believe there’s technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy. – Isaac Yeffet

178714. Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country? – Isaac Yeffet

178715. After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we’ve learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country. – Isaac Yeffet

178716. As the head of security for an airline, I can’t ask my passengers to risk their lives and jump on a terrorist. This is why we need air marshals on every flight. – Isaac Yeffet

178717. There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel. – Isaac Yeffet

178718. The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren’t even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. – A. B. Yehoshua

178719. We must see what in the Israeli identity – in the Israeli – we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. – A. B. Yehoshua

178720. Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. – A. B. Yehoshua

178721. The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn’t permit them to cross boundaries with other people. – A. B. Yehoshua

178722. The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. – A. B. Yehoshua

178723. One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. – A. B. Yehoshua

178724. Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. – A. B. Yehoshua

178725. I don’t think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing – even in part – our capacity to contribute to other peoples. – A. B. Yehoshua

178726. And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. – A. B. Yehoshua

178727. So with truth – there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there’s never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. – A. B. Yehoshua

178728. We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? – A. B. Yehoshua

178729. You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya. – Boris Yeltsin

178730. There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia’s history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed. – Boris Yeltsin

178731. Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world. – Boris Yeltsin

178732. We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments. – Boris Yeltsin

178733. We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity. – Boris Yeltsin

178734. We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Freedom is like that. It’s like air. When you have it, you don’t notice it. – Boris Yeltsin

178735. We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya. – Boris Yeltsin

178736. While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare. – Boris Yeltsin

178737. You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long. – Boris Yeltsin

178738. There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. – Boris Yeltsin

178739. We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account. – Boris Yeltsin

178740. I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state – a new idea, this – even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms. – Boris Yeltsin

178741. Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. – Boris Yeltsin

178742. A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. – Boris Yeltsin

178743. A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country. – Boris Yeltsin

178744. Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges – challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation. – Boris Yeltsin

178745. I understand that it’s hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions… we’ll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we’ll have to work on overcoming it. – Boris Yeltsin

178746. I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that. – Boris Yeltsin

178747. International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia. – Boris Yeltsin

178748. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. – Boris Yeltsin

178749. Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky. – Boris Yeltsin

178750. One could see that what you are writing was that today’s meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster. – Boris Yeltsin

178751. Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia. – Boris Yeltsin

178752. The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians. – Boris Yeltsin

178753. Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs. – Donnie Yen

178754. I’ve always been in a rebel. – Donnie Yen

178755. When you watch my films, you’re feeling my heart. – Donnie Yen

178756. There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films. – Donnie Yen

178757. Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself. – Donnie Yen

178758. I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan. – Donnie Yen

178759. Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time. – Donnie Yen

178760. From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker. – Donnie Yen

178761. There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs. – Donnie Yen

178762. For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country. – Donnie Yen

178763. For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm. – Donnie Yen

178764. I’m a very emotional guy. – Donnie Yen

178765. For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair. – Tim Yeo

178766. The next four years, there won’t be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It’s a naturally Conservative issue. – Tim Yeo

178767. There was no wind in all that sweep of sky. – Frank Yerby

178768. When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble. – Frank Yerby

178769. From where they stood, they could see the castle. – Frank Yerby

178770. About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. – Frank Yerby

178771. It’s extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. – Daniel Yergin

178772. We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president’s next stop was Saudi Arabia. – Daniel Yergin

178773. This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002. – Daniel Yergin

178774. The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources. – Daniel Yergin

178775. The Russians are turning east to the Chinese – to the Europeans’ surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas. – Daniel Yergin

178776. The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly. – Daniel Yergin

178777. So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. – Daniel Yergin

178778. The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list. – Daniel Yergin

178779. We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s. – Daniel Yergin

178780. People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters. – Daniel Yergin

178781. We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety. – Daniel Yergin

178782. But that’s not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it’s important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected. – Daniel Yergin

178783. In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient. – Daniel Yergin

178784. The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line. – Daniel Yergin

178785. But eventually it’s a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies’ agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years. – Daniel Yergin

178786. But the key thing is that Iraq, while it’s got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia. – Daniel Yergin

178787. Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don’t think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods. – Daniel Yergin

178788. Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. – Daniel Yergin

178789. Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies. – Daniel Yergin

178790. First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas. – Daniel Yergin

178791. I think the producers, for the most part, don’t want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can’t afford serious shocks right now. – Daniel Yergin

178792. If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market. – Daniel Yergin

178793. A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety. – Daniel Yergin

178794. Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178795. Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178796. Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178797. Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178798. Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178799. Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178800. Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178801. In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178802. I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178803. He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178804. Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one! – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178805. Envy is an insult to oneself. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178806. A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178807. Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178808. In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

178809. I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright. – Lee Kuan Yew

178810. I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can. – Lee Kuan Yew

178811. If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out of business. – Lee Kuan Yew

178812. Of-course we did, but we didn’t reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away. – Lee Kuan Yew

178813. The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests. – Lee Kuan Yew

178814. Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists. – Lee Kuan Yew

178815. A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can’t get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother. – Anzia Yezierska

178816. Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. – Anzia Yezierska

178817. The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. – Anzia Yezierska

178818. As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet. – Wu Yi

178819. We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan’s exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions… and we need to do it under tight control. – Wu Yi

178820. We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure. – Wu Yi

178821. Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory. – Zhang Yimou

178822. Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone’s mind. – Zhang Yimou

178823. Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice. – Zhang Yimou

178824. To survive is to win. – Zhang Yimou

178825. To do art, one thing should always remember – subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. – Zhang Yimou

178826. Time has changed and now is the age of spending. – Zhang Yimou

178827. This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own. – Zhang Yimou

178828. The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes. – Zhang Yimou

178829. Piracy has destroyed the domestic market. – Zhang Yimou

178830. You must know what you are capable of. – Zhang Yimou

178831. But I think we need the international market. – Zhang Yimou

178832. People in misery is what most important in art. – Zhang Yimou

178833. Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good. – Zhang Yimou

178834. For over ten years I always had, but I don’t speak English. – Zhang Yimou

178835. HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism. – Zhang Yimou

178836. I am a fan of wuxia. – Zhang Yimou

178837. I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories. – Zhang Yimou

178838. I must stick with Chinese language films. – Zhang Yimou

178839. I’m not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences. – Zhang Yimou

178840. Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough! – Zhang Yimou

178841. People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. – Zhang Yimou

178842. In addition, I’m finishing a track for the movie ‘Waking Up In Reno’, but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future. – Dwight Yoakam

178843. In the past 3-4 years I’ve developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I’m able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis. – Dwight Yoakam

178844. We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me – he’d gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way. – Dwight Yoakam

178845. Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently. – Dwight Yoakam

178846. Only beginning to present itself over the horizon. – Dwight Yoakam

178847. ‘m really proud of it. To me, it’s a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character’s massive survival guilt. – Dwight Yoakam

178848. It’s meant to reaffirm the validity of that music – clean, minimalist, honest, classic music. – Dwight Yoakam

178849. It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album. – Dwight Yoakam

178850. I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I’ve seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it. – Dwight Yoakam

178851. A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It’s like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being. – Dwight Yoakam

178852. I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme. – Dwight Yoakam

178853. I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular – I can choose that. – Dwight Yoakam

178854. Fortunately any of the songs we’ve recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show. – Dwight Yoakam

178855. Control success before it controls you. – Dwight Yoakam

178856. But that is a valid, continuing service that that music – which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old – is rendering. And proving its own timelessness. – Dwight Yoakam

178857. At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, ‘Let’s see if we’re able to live among the living, walk among the living.’ – Dwight Yoakam

178858. It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century. – Dwight Yoakam

178859. To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary. – Francis Parker Yockey

178860. Politics is activity in relation to power. – Francis Parker Yockey

178861. Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable. – Francis Parker Yockey

178862. The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. – Francis Parker Yockey

178863. The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing. – Francis Parker Yockey

178864. The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war. – Francis Parker Yockey

178865. The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism. – Francis Parker Yockey

178866. The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant. – Francis Parker Yockey

178867. The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side. – Francis Parker Yockey

178868. Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective. – Francis Parker Yockey

178869. A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible. – Francis Parker Yockey

178870. To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. – Francis Parker Yockey

178871. The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy. – Francis Parker Yockey

178872. Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation. – Francis Parker Yockey

178873. No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America’s youth. – Francis Parker Yockey

178874. As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts. – Francis Parker Yockey

178875. Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate. – Francis Parker Yockey

178876. Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook. – Francis Parker Yockey

178877. Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period. – Francis Parker Yockey

178878. A moment’s reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force. – Francis Parker Yockey

178879. If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? – Francis Parker Yockey

178880. Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes. – Francis Parker Yockey

178881. Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea. – Francis Parker Yockey

178882. Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown. – Francis Parker Yockey

178883. Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. – Francis Parker Yockey

178884. Man as a pure animal does not exist. – Francis Parker Yockey

178885. Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies. – Francis Parker Yockey

178886. There are always two forces warring against each other within us. – Paramahansa Yogananda

178887. Truth is exact correspondence with reality. – Paramahansa Yogananda

178888. There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. – Paramahansa Yogananda

178889. The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. – Paramahansa Yogananda

178890. The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom. – Paramahansa Yogananda

178891. The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others. – Paramahansa Yogananda

178892. Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. – Paramahansa Yogananda

178893. Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. – Paramahansa Yogananda

178894. I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn’t touch me, all those remarks. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

178895. Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

178896. The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

178897. Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

178898. James’s expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry’s progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. – Charlotte Mary Yonge

178899. When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. – Charlotte Mary Yonge

178900. I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus. – Aaron Yoo

178901. I’m an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old. – Aaron Yoo

178902. Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo. – Aaron Yoo

178903. Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. – John Yoo

178904. President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied. – John Yoo

178905. Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks. – John Yoo

178906. That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them. – John Yoo

178907. The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. – John Yoo

178908. The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo. – John Yoo

178909. This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. – John Yoo

178910. Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating. – John Yoo

178911. While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. – John Yoo

178912. It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. – John Yoo

178913. Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks. – John Yoo

178914. We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war. – John Yoo

178915. Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions. – John Yoo

178916. Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda. – John Yoo

178917. A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages. – John Yoo

178918. American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure. – John Yoo

178919. Congress’s definition of torture in those laws – the infliction of severe mental or physical pain – leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation. – John Yoo

178920. Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush’s 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. – John Yoo

178921. If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information. – John Yoo

178922. In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war. – John Yoo

178923. It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda’s intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners. – John Yoo

178924. It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists. – John Yoo

178925. It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq. – John Yoo

178926. Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action. – John Yoo

178927. I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn’t exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do. – Dick York

178928. I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn’t want to go to work the next day exhausted. – Dick York

178929. My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I’d be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn’t, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain. – Dick York

178930. I’ve been blessed. I have no complaints. I’ve been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things. – Dick York

178931. I’m trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn’t quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That’s about all I remember. – Dick York

178932. I’d managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there’s no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit. – Dick York

178933. I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren’t involved that they don’t have to go into spasms too. – Dick York

178934. I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t do anything. – Dick York

178935. I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over. – Dick York

178936. I had done my first picture and I didn’t have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley. – Dick York

178937. Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way. – Dick York

178938. Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit. – Dick York

178939. Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture. – Dick York

178940. After all, didn’t I blow a magnificent career? – Dick York

178941. I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work. – Dick York

178942. You’d go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air. – Dick York

178943. When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was. – Dick York

178944. Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds. – Dick York

178945. We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn’t pay the rent. We wouldn’t throw them out so we lost the building. – Dick York

178946. Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn’t doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall. – Dick York

178947. There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for California. You would go on at 8 pm in New York but you would also have to go on at 8 p.m. in California. That meant coming back in to do the show at 11 p.m. – Dick York

178948. My girlfriend claims that her last boyfriend was a better kisser than me and I have to admit, he is pretty good. – Dwight York

178949. I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours – so enjoy the view. – Michael York

178950. Every role I’ve played, that could’ve happened. It’s nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens. – Michael York

178951. I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, ‘You cannot bring him.’ but I think that I’ve done enough to shatter the image. – Michael York

178952. I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there… you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it’s been quite a bit of time since I’ve done a play, last one was in New York. – Michael York

178953. I’ve always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I’ve done bits of journalism. – Michael York

178954. Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let’s hope that everyone will wish to see it as well. – Michael York

178955. It’s a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn’t matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions. – Michael York

178956. They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers’ work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation. – Michael York

178957. The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular. – Michael York

178958. So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better – it is how we work in our trade – is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out. – Michael York

178959. No one has developed active tuberculosis. – Michael York

178960. I think it’s hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this. – Michael York

178961. Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. – Peter York

178962. If beauty isn’t genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. – Peter York

178963. I feel I’d like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world. – Susannah York

178964. Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people – we love to escape into other characters. – Susannah York

178965. I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too. – Susannah York

178966. I’ve struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. – Susannah York

178967. Men find it difficult because I’ve got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around. – Susannah York

178968. Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend. – Susannah York

178969. Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London – 21 Blenkarne Road – with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, ‘I want it.’ – Susannah York

178970. The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad. – Susannah York

178971. A relationship is lovely if you’re happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there’s nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest. – Susannah York

178972. Well, I’ve been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there’s no hope. – Thom Yorke

178973. You think I have the responsibilty… I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time! – Thom Yorke

178974. My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that’s just the way it is. – Thom Yorke

178975. One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. – Thom Yorke

178976. So ultimately, it’s idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things. – Thom Yorke

178977. Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn’t be my job. – Thom Yorke

178978. The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. – Thom Yorke

178979. This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer’s block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what’s going on has really helped. – Thom Yorke

178980. We didn’t start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what’s going on around us. – Thom Yorke

178981. We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked. – Thom Yorke

178982. Music is more difficult – try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political. – Thom Yorke

178983. Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won’t any by the time… he’s my age. That’s kinda hard to deal with. – Thom Yorke

178984. We don’t have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we’re channelling it through the new record. – Thom Yorke

178985. I think maybe since there isn’t a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don’t understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out. – Thom Yorke

178986. My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he’s screaming right-wing, so there you are. – Thom Yorke

178987. My argument would be that I don’t think there is much that’s genuinely political art that is good art. – Thom Yorke

178988. I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. – Thom Yorke

178989. I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they’re trying to write about. They have music. – Thom Yorke

178990. I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame. – Thom Yorke

178991. I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. – Thom Yorke

178992. I think we’re entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it’s in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind. – Thom Yorke

178993. I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I’d be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day. – Thom Yorke

178994. I’ve never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There’s always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. – Thom Yorke

178995. If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history. – Thom Yorke

178996. It is difficult to make political art work. – Thom Yorke

178997. I don’t see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests. – Thom Yorke

178998. And I know I’m paranoid and neurotic, I’ve made a career out of it. – Thom Yorke

178999. At home I’ve got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour. – Thom Yorke

179000. Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there’s not enough room for everybody. – Thom Yorke