300 Quotes on Being

• I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

  Author: John Zorn

• The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

  Author: Rachel Zoe

• You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

  Author: Barry Zito

• Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

  Author: John Zimmerman

• Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  Author: Xun Zi

• I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

  Author: Zhuangzi

• The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

  Author: Warren Zevon

• I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

  Author: Renee Zellweger

• Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

  Author: Renee Zellweger

• Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

  Author: Peter Zarlenga

• First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

  Author: Peter Zarlenga

• To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

  Author: Peter Zarlenga

• If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

  Author: Jay Z

• Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

  Author: Rick Yune

• Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

  Author: Rick Yune

• I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

  Author: Rick Yune

• I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

  Author: Robin Yount

• But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

  Author: Robin Yount

• You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

  Author: Cole Younger

• The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

  Author: Whitney Young

• When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

  Author: Loretta Young

• Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

  Author: James Young

• Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

  Author: James Young

• When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

  Author: Angus Young

• Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.

  Author: Alan Young

• It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

  Author: Isabel Yosito

• 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.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• 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.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• 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.

  Author: Michael York

• 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.

  Author: Dick York

• 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.

  Author: John Yoo

• 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.

  Author: Paramahansa Yogananda

• 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.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• 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.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

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

  Author: Donnie Yen

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

  Author: Donnie Yen

• 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.

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

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

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  Author: William Yeats

• I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

  Author: Martin Yan

• 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.

  Author: Martin Yan

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

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• 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.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

  Author: Lalu Yadav

• 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.

  Author: Xenophon

• 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.

  Author: Xenophanes

• 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.

  Author: Steve Wynn

• The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

  Author: Jane Wyman

• Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

  Author: William Wycherley

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

  Author: William Wycherley

• Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• 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.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• 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.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• 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.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• 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.

  Author: Peter Wright

• The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

  Author: Orville Wright

• I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

  Author: Gary Wright

• There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

  Author: Frances Wright

• These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

  Author: Frances Wright

• Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

  Author: Fay Wray

• Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!

  Author: Fay Wray

• It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

  Author: Fay Wray

• Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

  Author: Herman Wouk

• Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

  Author: Herman Wouk

• Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

  Author: Mary Wortley

• I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

  Author: Fred Woodworth

• An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.

  Author: Joanne Woodward

• I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

  Author: James Woods

• There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

  Author: Judy Woodruff

• The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

  Author: John Wooden

• I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

  Author: Leonard Woodcock

• I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

  Author: Victoria Wood

• When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!

  Author: Ron Wood

• The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.

  Author: Ron Wood

• Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

  Author: Ron Wood

• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

  Author: Elijah Wood

• There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

  Author: Elijah Wood

• There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

  Author: Elijah Wood

• I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

  Author: Douglas Wood

• That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

  Author: Beatrice Wood

• It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

  Author: Lee Womack

• But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

  Author: Lee Womack

• How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

  Author: Stephen Wolfram

• It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it.

  Author: Scott Wolf

• Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

  Author: Markus Wolf

• Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

  Author: Frank Wolf

• I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

  Author: James Wolcott

• I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

  Author: P. Wodehouse

• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.

  Author: Edward Witten

• Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.

  Author: Robert Wise

• As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

  Author: John Wise

• Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

  Author: Isaac Wise

• My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

  Author: Niklaus Wirth

• Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

  Author: Shelley Winters

• I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

  Author: Edgar Winter

• I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

  Author: Robert Winston

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  Author: Kate Winslet

• A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

• There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what it was going to take to get here.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do.

  Author: April Winchell

• If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.

  Author: Torrie Wilson

• I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

  Author: Thomas Wilson

• It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

  Author: Sloan Wilson

• We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

  Author: Rainn Wilson

• If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.

  Author: Peta Wilson

• Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

  Author: Mike Wilson

• I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.

  Author: Luke Wilson

• In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.

  Author: Joseph Wilson

• Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

  Author: Earl Wilson

• Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love.

  Author: Dennis Wilson

• This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

  Author: Cassandra Wilson

• Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

  Author: Walter Williams

• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  Author: Venus Williams

• If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

  Author: Ted Williams

• The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

  Author: Shirley Williams

• String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

  Author: Roy Williams

• As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

  Author: Roberta Williams

• It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

  Author: Ricky Williams

• But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

  Author: Ralph Williams

• If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

  Author: Paul Williams

• I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

  Author: JoBeth Williams

• It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.

  Author: Esther Williams

• The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

  Author: Bill Williams

• I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

  Author: Bert Williams

• Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.

  Author: Prince William

• Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

  Author: George Will

• The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

  Author: George Will

• You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

  Author: Tom Wilkinson

• It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

  Author: Tom Wilkinson

• If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

  Author: Tom Wilkinson

• Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

  Author: William Wiley

• I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

  Author: William Wiley

• Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Who, being loved, is poor?

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

  Author: Larry Wilcox

• So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

  Author: Ella Wilcox

• The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

  Author: Ella Wilcox

• We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?

  Author: Simon Wiesenthal

• You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

  Author: Mary Whitehouse

• I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

  Author: Vanna White

• For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

  Author: Theodore White

• Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.

  Author: Ryan White

• I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

  Author: Meg White

• When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

  Author: Barry White

• We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

  Author: William Whewell

• I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

  Author: Edith Wharton

• Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back.

  Author: Lee Westwood

• Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.

  Author: Kim Weston

• I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.

  Author: Kim Weston

• I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

  Author: Donald Westlake

• Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.

  Author: Timothy West

• The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

  Author: Timothy West

• When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

  Author: Shane West

• Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

  Author: Rebecca West

• But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.

  Author: Randy West

• Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.

  Author: Randy West

• As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.

  Author: Randy West

• How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

  Author: Adam West

• We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

  Author: Eudora Welty

• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

  Author: Irvine Welsh

• The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.

  Author: David Wells

• I like being in new places and seeing new sights.

  Author: Tom Welling

• Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

  Author: Arthur Wellesley

• Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

  Author: Orson Welles

• I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

  Author: Fay Weldon

• For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

  Author: Robert Welch

• Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

  Author: Raquel Welch

• I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

  Author: James Welch

• I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

  Author: Rachel Weisz

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  Author: Rachel Weisz

• That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

  Author: Rachel Weisz

• The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

  Author: Mike Weir

• But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.

  Author: Allen Weinstein

• It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

  Author: Caspar Weinberger

• I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.

  Author: Max Weinberg

• I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

  Author: George Weinberg

• I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.

  Author: George Weinberg

• I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.

  Author: George Weinberg

• A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

  Author: Simone Weil

• With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

  Author: Simone Weil

• It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

  Author: Simone Weil

• A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.

  Author: Gene Ween

• When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

  Author: Dean Ween

• Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

  Author: Karrie Webb

• First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.

  Author: Karrie Webb

• I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

  Author: Earl Weaver

• Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

  Author: John Wayne

• Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• I never thought about being famous.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

  Author: Ruby Wax

• If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

  Author: Auberon Waugh

• It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

  Author: Paul Watzlawick

• This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

  Author: Paul Watzlawick

• I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

  Author: Alan Watts

• How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

  Author: Alan Watts

• Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

  Author: Alan Watts

• So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

  Author: Alan Watts

• So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

  Author: Alan Watts

• We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

  Author: Alan Watts

• Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

  Author: Mike Watt

• Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

  Author: Tom Watson

• Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

  Author: Doc Watson

• I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

  Author: Barry Watson

• I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

  Author: Barry Watson

• I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.

  Author: Maxine Waters

• I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

  Author: John Waters

• We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.

  Author: Daniel Waters

• It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

  Author: Gedde Watanabe

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