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Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.
Author:
Ernst Zundel
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What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.
Author:
Ernst Zundel
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So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.
Author:
David Zucker
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We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.
Author:
David Zucker
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I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one.
Author:
David Zucker
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Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
Author:
David Zucker
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You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!
Author:
John Zorn
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Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.
Author:
John Zorn
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I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.
Author:
John Zorn
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Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.
Author:
Anders Zorn
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Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
Author:
Slavoj Zizek
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Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else.
Author:
Chuck Zito
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We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
Author:
Xun Zi
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Author:
Zhuangzi
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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
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Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.
Author:
Niklas Zennstrom
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It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same.
Author:
Carl Zeiss
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Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.
Author:
Pieter Zeeman
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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
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Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.
Author:
Pieter Zeeman
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My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.
Author:
Michael Zaslow
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About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense.
Author:
Mark Zandi
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Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
Author:
Muhammad Yunus
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It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
Author:
Neil Young
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The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
Author:
Neil Young
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I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
Author:
James Young
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The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.
Author:
James Young
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We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.
Author:
James Young
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I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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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.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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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!
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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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.
Author:
Wu Yi
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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.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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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.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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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.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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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.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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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.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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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
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Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?
Author:
Isaac Yeffet
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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.
Author:
Paula Yates
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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.
Author:
Brock Yates
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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.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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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.
Author:
Chelsea Yarbro
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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.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.
Author:
Jane Wyman
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If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.
Author:
Elinor Wylie
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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.
Author:
Zakk Wylde
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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.
Author:
Ron Wyden
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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.
Author:
Ron Wyden
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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.
Author:
Wilhelm Wundt
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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.
Author:
Will Wright
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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.
Author:
Will Wright
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Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!
Author:
Will Wright
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I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
Author:
Steven Wright
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I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.
Author:
Steven Wright
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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.
Author:
Steven Wright
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Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
Author:
Steven Wright
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The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
Author:
Steven Wright
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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.
Author:
Richard Wright
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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.
Author:
Peter Wright
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We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
Author:
Jeremiah Wright
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We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
Author:
Gary Wright
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Author:
Francis Wright
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We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
Author:
Bernie Worrell
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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.
Author:
Tom Wopat
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I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.
Author:
Tom Wopat
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My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.
Author:
John Woolman
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The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.
Author:
John Woolman
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I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.
Author:
John Woolman
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In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.
Author:
Frank Woolley
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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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
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Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Author:
Joanne Woodward
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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.
Author:
Judy Woodruff
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.
Author:
Leonard Woodcock
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Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.
Author:
George Woodcock
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Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.
Author:
Roy Wood
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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
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I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.
Author:
Ron Wood
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My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
Author:
Ron Wood
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It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
Author:
Ron Wood
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
Author:
Ed Wood
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
Author:
Ed Wood
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Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.
Author:
Anna Wong
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So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
Author:
Stephen Wolfram
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The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?
Author:
Stephen Wolfram
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
Author:
James Wolfe
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I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.
Author:
Scott Wolf
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Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.
Author:
Scott Wolf
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We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now.
Author:
Markus Wolf
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The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.
Author:
Dick Wolf
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If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways.
Author:
Edward Witten
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As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.
Author:
Edward Witten
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For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.
Author:
Robert Wise
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
Author:
John Wise
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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
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I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.
Author:
Norman Wisdom
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Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving.
Author:
Steve Winwood
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
Author:
Shelley Winters
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Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
Author:
Shelley Winters
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The best artists are gone now.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?
Author:
Henry Winkler
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I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.
Author:
Kip Winger
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Now it's on to May, and you know about me and May.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.
Author:
Dave Winer
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We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.
Author:
Terri Windling
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In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.
Author:
Terri Windling
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I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it.
Author:
Torrie Wilson
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What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
Author:
Richard Wilson
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I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.
Author:
Pete Wilson
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I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
Author:
Malcolm Wilson
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Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.
Author:
Kenneth Wilson
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Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.
Author:
James Wilson
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There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.
Author:
James Wilson
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
Author:
E. Wilson
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I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.
Author:
Debra Wilson
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I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.
Author:
Debra Wilson
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For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
Author:
August Wilson
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I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.
Author:
Ann Wilson
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Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
Author:
John Wilmot
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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
Author:
John Wilmot
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Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.
Author:
William Wills
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The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.
Author:
William Wills
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You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.
Author:
Chill Wills
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By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.
Author:
Ellen Willis
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I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.
Author:
Walter Williams
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Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
Author:
Walter Williams
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We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.
Author:
Shirley Williams
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To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.
Author:
Robbie Williams
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I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.
Author:
Ricky Williams
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I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.
Author:
Ricky Williams
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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
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.
Author:
Mary Williams
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In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
Author:
Kit Williams
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When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.
Author:
Juan Williams
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And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.
Author:
Juan Williams
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The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?
Author:
Juan Williams
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
Author:
Ian Williams
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I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
Author:
Ian Williams
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The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?
Author:
Anthony Williams
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I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now.
Author:
Anson Williams
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I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.
Author:
Alvin Williams
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I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.
Author:
Prince William
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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
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I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.
Author:
Tom Wilkinson
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The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
Author:
Laura Wilder
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
Author:
Jack Wild
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Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.
Author:
Michael Wilbon
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The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.
Author:
Dianne Wiest
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Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.
Author:
Leon Wieseltier
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If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.
Author:
Michelle Wie
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It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.
Author:
Sue Wicks
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Once you know what to expect, it gets easier and easier. And now I know what I have to do to prepare for each season and what to expect through each season.
Author:
Sue Wicks
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Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt.
Author:
Roger Wicker
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I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
Author:
Eli Whitney
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.
Author:
Meg Whitman
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I have more influence now than when I had the power.
Author:
Gough Whitlam
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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
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And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
Author:
George Whitefield
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I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.
Author:
Theodore White
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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Author:
Ron White
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The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!
Author:
Pearl White
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It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year, and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.
Author:
Bryan White
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
Author:
Forest Whitaker
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Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.
Author:
William Whipple
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Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
Author:
William Wharton
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Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.
Author:
Kim Weston
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Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.
Author:
Edward Weston
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I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.
Author:
Donald Westlake
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Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.
Author:
Timothy West
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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
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Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.
Author:
Shane West
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Author:
Mae West
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Author:
Mae West
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So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol.
Author:
Allen West
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Some people would say I've made it now.
Author:
David Wenham
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I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
Author:
David Wenham
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Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Author:
Ida Wells
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We are now after 7 months operation making money here.
Author:
Henry Wells
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
Author:
H. Wells
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The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.
Author:
David Wells
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I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.
Author:
David Wells
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Author:
Orson Welles
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
Author:
Orson Welles
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Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.
Author:
Curt Weldon
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Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
Author:
William Weld
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Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.
Author:
James Welch
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The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.
Author:
James Welch
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I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.
Author:
Brian Welch
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The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency.
Author:
Anne Weismann
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National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.
Author:
Peter Weir
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One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
Author:
Cynthia Weil
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Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.
Author:
Gene Ween
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When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.
Author:
Gene Ween
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It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
Author:
Eberhard Weber
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Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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Golf is my boyfriend right now.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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Now we have to hit them from a different angle.
Author:
Shawn Wayans
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We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.
Author:
Shawn Wayans
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We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.
Author:
Henry Waxman
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My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.
Author:
Naomi Watts
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Author:
Alan Watts
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No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Author:
Alan Watts
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.
Author:
Mel Watt
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
Author:
James Watson
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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
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Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.
Author:
Jody Watley
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I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.
Author:
Jody Watley
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Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.
Author:
Jody Watley
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Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.
Author:
Jody Watley
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Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard.
Author:
Muddy Waters
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After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.
Author:
Crystal Waters
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The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.
Author:
Josiah Warren
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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Author:
Josiah Warren
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The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.
Author:
Josiah Warren
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Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.
Author:
Mark Warner
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My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
Author:
Shane Warne
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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Author:
Andy Warhol
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Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.
Author:
Chris Ware