Top 333 Wilson Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.
There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
Trinity. . . .
When we heard that actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson, who were also in Australia, had contracted coronavirus, it was alarming.
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.
Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.
In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.
Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.
Height doesn't matter. You see guys like Tyrod Taylor, Brees, Russell Wilson: they've proven that it doesn't matter.
And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.
The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.
Russell Wilson has got a tremendous competitive mindset and it stems from the confidence that he feels based on the preparation that he puts in.
When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.
This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.
Russell [Wilson] plays really well in the pocket [and] outside the pocket. He’s just a play waiting to happen.
I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.
Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.
[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench.
In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.
The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.
It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?
We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.
Louise Wilson told me she wanted to see more of the 1997 show. And so I needed to reissue that.
Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.
In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
Anthony Mackie is better at being Sam Wilson than I am. So I embrace his ideas.
When I hear a singer, I want them to be passionate and intense, and soul singers like Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett always seemed to do exactly that.
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."
It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next Time.' 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' of course.
There's something about Warren Wilson. You can gain a lot of very important things and skills that you carry over into whatever you decide to do.
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.
I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.
I loved Wilson Pickett, so I just went on from there. I became sort of a semi-groupie because, I don't know, I got bitten by the music bug.
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.
I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.
Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train!
The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.
Tony Wilson once compared me to WB Yeats. It didn't really mean that much because I didn't have a clue who Yeats was.
It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.
My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.
After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
I think everybody will agree that 'Torrie Wilson' is a name that nobody - no true wrestling fan - will ever forget.
I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.
The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.
I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.
If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.
What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.
I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her childhood.
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.
My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.
It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
I suppose maybe [Wilson] would be a better person if he were able to censor himself, but then he wouldn't be as interesting.
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a janitor at McDonald's.
What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?
